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              Skin in the Game

              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Stuart Kirk
                Why everyone else can panic about rising bond yields

                In the US they signal optimism while I’m loving a weaker pound

              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                My answers to your most popular questions this year

                From investing without losing it, to green finance and getting rich quick

              • Friday, 6 December, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Why portfolio rebalancing isn’t zen

                Neither theory nor practice supports diligently adjusting your exposures

              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Stock investors needn’t fear tariffs

                Uncertainty around trade merely increases the equity risk premium

              • Friday, 22 November, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Why I’m sticking to my guns with my portfolio

                As I reach the two-year anniversary, I find generally sweet returns — with one flaw

              • Friday, 8 November, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Why it’s way easier to call US elections than pick stocks

                Even so, I’m yearning to have a go if only to amuse my readers

              • Friday, 1 November, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Should you ever buy a stock index at a record high?

                It feels so wrong, but investors (me included) needn’t worry so much

              • Friday, 18 October, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                A beginner’s guide to US earnings season

                Corporate profits matter, but some results matter more than others

              • Friday, 4 October, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                In investing, what if bad is good and good is bad?

                As with parenting, constraints are not enemies. Quite the opposite in fact

              • Friday, 20 September, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Three big investment questions I’m asking now — and so should you

                As the fourth quarter looms, portfolio risk, US equities and China are all that matters

                A Chinese dragon and bull face each other with US Federal Reserve logo in the background
              • Friday, 13 September, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Can I buy emerging stocks without touching Asia?

                I’m after any funds replicating an emerging markets ex-Asia index

              • Friday, 30 August, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                When will emerging stocks finally emerge?

                The story is always compelling but the returns are not

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              • Friday, 16 August, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Those of us in our fifties have to fight for every basis point we can

                Boosting investment returns sure beats working for longer in order to retire

              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                What ordinary investors can learn from this week’s market meltdown

                Why I won’t even leave the beach for a one-day decline of 12 per cent

              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Will summer vibes boost my portfolio?

                What could put investors in a better mood to buy than a couple of months of sport and sun? But the season has its pitfalls

                Illustration includes Olympics logo, margarita and football player
              • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                How investors should play the UK, French and US elections

                Worry not if policies are discounted, they are sideshows versus fundamentals

              • Friday, 14 June, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                What I learnt from your open-ended wisdom on closed-ended funds

                My previous column on investment trusts filled my mailbag with expert responses

              • Friday, 7 June, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Are investment trusts the new Japanese equities?

                For me there is no sensible reason why their share prices trade at a discount to NAV

              • Friday, 17 May, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Now everyone hates private equity I’ll buy some

                And I’ve found a way to do it that avoids the insane fees

              • Friday, 10 May, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                Readers’ tips for doubling my money

                It’s easy peasy apparently — so it’s only fair I spread the word

              • Friday, 22 March, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                I’ve never had performance anxiety before now

                Peer benchmarks are for wimps, but only fools take on the S&P 500

              • Friday, 15 March, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                The rally in Asian stocks hasn’t dulled my bitcoin pain

                They haven’t even gone up much and now they’re expensive too

              • Friday, 8 March, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                I ignored the Budget but love UK stocks regardless

                FTSE 100 companies are so cheap and so global that local politics is irrelevant

                Image of chancellor’s red Budget briefcase superimposed on charts and pound notes
              • Friday, 23 February, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                30 years late, I’ve finally made money in Japan

                After the Nikkei’s record-breaking run, what should investors do now?

              • Friday, 9 February, 2024
                Stuart Kirk
                S&P exceptionalism versus ‘expensiveism’

                My retirement depends on which belief dominates

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