MoneyWeek

MoneyWeek is a weekly magazine that enables you to become a better-informed, smarter investor and enjoy the rewards of managing your money with confidence. Week-in, week-out we'll guide you through the financial world as it changes, alerting you to all the opportunities to profit and dangers to avoid, as they appear. Income strategies, rising-star companies, the best funds and trusts, clever ways to preserve your wealth during market turmoil... you will get the best ideas from the sharpest financial minds and investing professionals in Britain.

From the editor...

Les misérables olympiques

Can the Chinese rally last?

Japan hikes rates into positive territory

A slow-motion crisis in property

King Dollar will keep ruling

Viewpoint

Key eurozone financial stress gauge eases • Italy-Germany bond spread

Apple eyes Google’s AI • The two technology giants intend to form a new partnership. But their current tie-up has already irked regulators. Matthew Partridge reports

Direct Line may gain time to recover

US purchase haunts Reckitt

MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips

A German view

IPO watch

Labour’s plan for the economy • The probable next chancellor has laid out her grand vision for Britain. Emily Hohler reports

Trump’s legal woes come to a head

Putin’s unsurprising victory • The Russian president engineers an election win. Matthew Partridge reports

Xi tightens his grip on Hong Kong

Betting on politics

News

Britain isn’t working • An increasing number of people, particularly among the young, are off work with mental-health problems and claiming benefits. What’s going on? Simon Wilson reports

All change for private equity • Circumstances have changed and the easy money has all been made. Now private-equity firms will have to learn how to run businesses

City talk

A vicious circle for the UK • Small caps are struggling globally, but London has good reason to fret about the fate of the FTSE 250

I wish I knew what Acc and Dist were, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

How Western hegemony ends

Rent controls don’t work

The joy of the video shop

Companies built the empire

Small caps’ big rebound potential • Take advantage of the wide range of investment trusts covering this frequently overlooked sector

Pursue the potential in private equity • Now that dynamic new companies are increasingly choosing not to list on equity markets, investors should opt for trusts offering access to promising plays on private markets, says Max King

Profit from the railway revolution • Public-transport group FirstGroup is benefiting from a new approach to operating trains

Death tax on the rise • Frozen inheritance-tax thresholds are squeezing more and more families

A new way to play US shares

Pocket money... charity cash left in limbo

The value in VAT • It may be worth registering for value-added tax, even if you don’t have to

Tax deadline for sole traders

Petty cash... clampdown on R&D credits

The sky’s the limit for these companies profiting from cloud computing • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Anthony Ginsberg, manager of the HAN-GINS Tech Megatrend Equal Weight UCITS ETF

Alex

Rolls-Royce revs its engine • The group has benefited from the bounce back in air travel and offers value

Trading techniques... buy the divi kings

How my tips have fared

Trump’s enabler takes on the Tories • Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker was confident he would emerge a...