The Block winners Will Bethune and Karlie Cicero sell their first fully renovated home

The Block stars Will Bethune and Karlie Cicero won the home renovation series back in 2016.  And the property flippers are smiling again after selling their first fully-renovated home in Brisbane, Queensland. According to realestate.com.au, the pair sold the property for an undisclosed amount after first listing it in December.  Going, going, gone! The Block stars … Read more

A hunting great white shark and a hummingbird ‘kissing’ a snake among winners of Tokyo Foto Awards

A photography competition is celebrating the beauty and drama of the animal kingdom with a selection of stunning images which have best captured the natural world in the past year. The Tokyo International Foto Awards 2020 features a number of captivating images highlighting the awesome power of nature. Among the winners, which were announced this … Read more

Premium Bond winners: Saver scoops 1,900% return on lockdown investment

Lockdown luck! One saver scoops a 1,900% return after winning Premium Bond jackpot with cash he stuck in last June The man from London turned a £50,000 holding into £1m  This beats the FTSE 100 – which has returned 4.56% over the same period  There were another £1.34bn of Bonds bought last December even as … Read more

GameStop winners and losers: Small Reddit investors are up while hedge funds face $19B in losses

The staggering rally of shares in beleaguered video game retailer GameStop is minting new millionaires, and costing hedge funds billions of dollars – at least on paper. GameStop shares rose another 70 percent on Friday in a staggering rally driven by small investors on the online forum Reddit that has seen the stock surge 1,800 … Read more

GameStop winners and losers: Small Reddit investors are up while hedge funds face $19B in losses

The staggering rally of shares in beleaguered video game retailer GameStop is minting new millionaires, and costing hedge funds billions of dollars – at least on paper. GameStop shares rose another 70 percent on Friday in a staggering rally driven by small investors on the online forum Reddit that has seen the stock surge 1,800 … Read more

The winners (and literal losers) from the bitcoin boom

Chris Sedgwick, from Yorkshire, has made a 3,650% return on bitcoin he bought in 2015 Chris Sedgwick’s half-a-decade brush with bitcoin has involved, among other things, a Tesco meal deal now worth £210, a Skoda Octavia, and the near collapse of the global banking system. The cyber security professional from Yorkshire, in his mid-30s, first bought … Read more

CERNO GLOBAL LEADERS: Boutique fund shops for winners

CERNO GLOBAL LEADERS: Gains from winning stocks are quickly banked and used to increase positions that have not performed as well By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 9 January 2021 Investment house Cerno Capital is a small ’boutique’ fund manager, based in London’s West … Read more

Parent is slammed for saying women are happy to quit jobs so their husbands can be the bread winners

A woman has provoked a furious debate by claiming she never believes mothers who say they ‘sacrificed’ their careers in favour of their husbands’ in order to raise their families.   Taking to Mumsnet’s Am I being Unreasonable, the unnamed women said she takes issue with women who say: ‘He wouldn’t be where he is if … Read more

Parent is slammed for saying women are happy to quit jobs so their husbands can be the bread winners

A woman has provoked a furious debate by claiming she never believes mothers who say they ‘sacrificed’ their careers in favour of their husbands’ in order to raise their families.   Taking to Mumsnet’s Am I being Unreasonable, the unnamed women said she takes issue with women who say: ‘He wouldn’t be where he is if … Read more