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“Everyone has a book in them…”

by Dan Channer | Oct 11, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Agent

Originally published June 2022. Our writer set out to find out if this is actually true. “Daddy, why are you writing about women’s boobs?” I turn puce as my 11-year-old stares me down. I stay silent and she repeats the question. My wife looks as me as if I have...

High executive pay is no excuse for state intervention

by Len Shackleton | Oct 10, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zLead Article, zNewsletter

The High Pay Centre has just published its latest report on the remuneration of FTSE-100 CEOs. As usual, the report shows median pay which, by most people’s standards, is pretty colossal. At £3.4m, this figure is over 100 times that of the median UK worker...

Gateway markets

by Martin Hoesli and Louis Johner | Oct 7, 2022 | The Professor, zOurWriters2

Is investors’ preference for them warranted? An important issue for investors is that of how to structure their exposure to commercial real estate. A common allocation strategy is to tilt real estate portfolios towards well-located, high-quality properties in...

Farmland’s decade

by Forbes Elworthy | Oct 6, 2022 | The Farmer, zEditor's pick

Comparing farmland and property. This commentary argues that farmland values may double over the next 10 years, while over the same 10 years residential and commercial property values are unlikely to increase. What happens to farmland in times of inflation? Farm...

Chess: how to spot a potential cheat

by Michael K Cohen | Oct 5, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zOtherDiversions

A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned US grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a computer program. It had reportedly previously banned his mentor, Maxim Dlugy. And at the...