Ruffer Investment Review
15th January 2019
“I thought you chaps at Ruffer said that you’d never lose money for me – what’s gone wrong?”
The weakness in markets reflects the passing of an... Read More >
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The View from Berkeley Square
9th January 2019
- Global Real Estate Sector robust in 2018
- Fed policy will drive equity markets in 2019, including Real Estate
- UK performance hit by Brexit and... Read More >
Millennials — different burdens to bear
16th January 2019
It’s popular to group millennials together as one cohesive group and compare like-for-like. But they are a diverse bunch that share as many differences as... Read More >
Making money in a potential CBS-Viacom merger deal!
14th January 2019
Merger mania in Wall Street media shares was a profitable theme for me in 2018, particularly since I owned 21st Century Fox shares well before Walt Disney... Read More >
An interview with Philip Churchill
21st December 2018
Philip is Founder & Managing Partner of 90 North, a real estate investment manager headquartered in London, with offices in Chicago, Kuala Lumpur and... Read More >
Letter from Washington
16th January 2019
President Trump's schedule (EST):
11:30 AM: Meets with the House Problem Solvers Caucus;
1:00 PM: Has lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo;... Read More >
Here’s how to have a popular, liberal immigration system after Brexit
16th January 2019
Around the time the US Congress debated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), opinion surveys on the subject showed an... Read More >
Latest Articles
How railways helped change the economy of Britain and the consumption habits of its people
19th December 2018
The railways made a rapid impact on Britain. It was only in 1830 that inter-city rail travel started with the link between Liverpool and Manchester, but by... Read More >
The Iranians crossing the Channel make me proud to be British
13th January 2019
If only we could see it, the Iranians attempting to cross the Channel in small boats are paying us a compliment. They have decided they would rather try to... Read More >
The Entrepreneurship "Tsunami"
19th December 2018
Having conducted a number of Strategic Foresight exercises for various universities over the past year, I am shocked and concerned how ill-prepared students... Read More >
The Scorpion #2
20th December 2018
The battle between traditional high street agencies and their online competitors rumbles on, in a Goliath versus Goliath sort of way. While city investors... Read More >
What I have been drinking this month...
26th November 2018
So, at the risk of stating the obvious, it’s not too bad a time to be a beer-drinker, is it?
Yes, of course the likes of Watneys Red Barrel,... Read More >
The latest chapter in this sorry farce should derail HS2
16th January 2019
There is a new instalment in the poorly acted farce that is HS2. Today it has been revealed that HS2 may be forced to cut the number of trains it runs each... Read More >
THE STIRLING PRIZE
16th November 2018
The RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Stirling Prize, named after the renowned architect James Stirling, was introduced in 1996 and is presented... Read More >
Proud to be British
12th December 2018
It is always a pleasure to come across someone who makes you proud to be British. Baroness Trumpington, who died, aged 96, on 26 November, was one such... Read More >
Auction Watch - November 2018
28th November 2018
More than £4bn of residential and commercial property has been sold at in-room auctions across the UK in the past 12 months. Perhaps surprisingly given the... Read More >
