The BFIA Wealth Summit 2025 taught us to prioritize safety, value, and growth
This year's annual conference, which took place in honor of the magazine's 25th anniversary, was a huge success. Here's a summary of what...
Articles by James Mackreides
Which is better for your money: an ISA with cash or one with stocks and shares?
Your financial situation and your objectives will determine whether investing or saving is the best course of action. For example, before...
Has Saba gained control of Terry Smith's fund?
In an attempt to address the Smithson Investment Trust's ongoing discount, Terry Smith, CEO and chief investment officer of Fundsmith, ha...
The secret to Next CEO Simon Wolfson's success is to turn setbacks into victories
Eighty years later, what lessons can business managers learn from this book, and how did Wolfson apply them to Next? Simon Wolfso...
Over-50s use equity releases to pay off their average debt of thirty thousand pounds
According to recent research, many Brits are carrying debt into their midlife years and are increasingly thinking about equity release as...
Three things pension investors should know from Warren Buffett
The average pension saver can learn a few things about long-term investing from Warren Buffett, who is widely recognized as the most succ...
Rishi Sunak: Rather than changing policy, we need to change culture in order to encourage investment
Former prime minister Rishi Sunak tells BFIA, "We need a cultural change, not a policy change to get people to invest more."/p...
Why it might be dangerous to include cryptocurrency ETN in your ISA
After HMRC confirmed that investors would only be permitted to hold the assets in a stocks and shares ISA for six months, adding cryptocu...
Fiscal drag bites: more than a million people pay 45% income tax
Last year, over a million people in the UK paid the highest rate of income tax due to frozen thresholds pushing hundreds of thousands mor...
Keep an eye on these three AI stocks
Despite growing concerns about their valuations, artificial intelligence (AI) stocks are still very popular and appear to be for some tim...
How to put money into private equity
Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was described as a "master of the unive...
Why is BFIA a student at the Austrian School of Economics?
In its 25 years of operation, BFIA has established a solid reputation for identifying the key economic trends in the economy and society ...
