If you are investing in a tracker fund that, say, follows the FTSE 100, does it really matter which one you choose? It’s a bit like choosing whether to buy your milk at Tesco or Sainsbury’s — it all comes from the same place, after all. Only all trackers are not equal, no matter what…
The government has appointed Alan Taylor as Jonathan Haskel’s replacement on the Bank of England’s ratesetting committee. Taylor, a professor at Columbia University in New York who has advised some of the world’s largest financial institutions, will join the Bank’s monetary policy committee as an external member on a three-year term on September 2, meaning…
Being diagnosed with a rare type of cancer encouraged Kate Cotterill, co-founder of She Grows Veg, to “go big” on her seed business. In only nine months the Suffolk-based venture had sold more than 47,000 heirloom seed packets. Cotterill, 47, who had worked in advertising for 25 years, knew deep down that there was a…
The Bank of Mum and Dad lent or gave £9.4 billion to their children last year to help them on to the property ladder – almost double the total five years ago. An analysis of UK Finance data by Savills, the estate agency, found that nearly six in ten, or 57 per cent, of mortgaged…
Labour’s claims about the economic situation it inherited from the Conservatives should be treated with a dose of scepticism, a senior economist has said after retail sales bounced back last month. Sales increased by 0.5 per cent in July compared with June as retailers recovered from a 0.9 per cent slump previously. The rise was…
Paul Atterbury specialises in the art, architecture, design and history of the 19th and 20th centuries and has special interests in railway history, the First World War, sculpture and 1920-30s jazz. He has been an expert on the “miscellaneous” team on Antiques Roadshow for 34 years, has given lectures all over the world, curated exhibitions,…