Equities began the year pretty much where they had left off in 2020 – in a ‘buy everything’ bull market. Despite some wobbles before Christmas, growth shares made further gains in the first few weeks of the year alongside the recovery trade in value and cyclical stocks. My magpie Isa was 25 per cent up … Read more
My father used to ‘play the stock market’. He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord. He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a … Read more
Siblings have no trouble finding differences to bicker about, and spending habits are as likely as anything to cause familial ructions. But children in large families are likely to display very different attitudes towards money, research suggests. The middle child in a family is often the biggest spender compared to siblings, a study from peer-to-peer … Read more