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    Stuart Kirk

    Stuart Kirk writes about investing for FT Weekend. He held roles in banking, asset management and consulting over a 20-year career, and ran the Lex Column in a previous incarnation at the FT.

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvesting in funds
      My performance is way better than most hedge funds

      And that’s even after subtracting the cost of reading the FT

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvesting in funds
      Why investors needn’t worry about oil prices

      Sometimes they matter, sometimes they don’t — the evidence doesn’t give us a clue

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Skin in the GameFund management
      My portfolio is slimmer and not a needle in sight

      Flow and survey data are tempting but resist them if you can

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Skin in the GameSovereign bonds
      I’m a bond casualty but I won’t die

      In fact the latest data screams ‘more fixed income!’

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Investing in Japan: a triumph of hope over experience

      Despite years of disappointment, I’m betting on Tokyo

    • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
      ESG investing
      Rebranding ESG won’t save it from its internal contradictions

      The environmental, social and governance framework for investing is riven with inconsistencies

      A truck carries coal in Wales. If a miner of coal is unsustainable then so is the truck company hauling the stuff. And why not its tyre supplier or the rubber maker?
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvestments
      Help me doctor, I’m selling the US and buying Asia

      Wanting more risk means doing the opposite of what I’ve always been prescribed

    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvesting in funds
      Double or quits: valuing Wall Street (part 2)

      I wanted to buy US stocks but I’ve talked myself into selling

    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Double or quits: valuing Wall Street

      US stocks always go up, but will they halve first?

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Office life
      The Musk-Zuck ruck — why we need more white-collar rumbles

      It’s good that office fisticuffs are vanishingly rare but the sight of business titans going toe to toe is fabulous entertainment

      A man in a suit and tie wears two boxing gloves, with the logos of Twitter and Meta on opposing arms
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Time to make waves in my portfolio

      Slow and steady no longer does it for me — time for some fun

    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      What to say about house prices at a dinner party

      The topic is back in the news and we haven’t a clue, as usual

    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      I don’t own green funds because I want to live

      Treating AI stocks as sustainable is a bad joke

    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Companies
      Corporate hypocrisy doesn’t bother us too much. This is why

      Modern economies are predicated on doing one thing, saying another and keeping a straight face throughout

      A montage of a man in a suit holding a mask behind his back, next to a giant hand holding a wodge of cash
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast27 min listen
      Best of Money Clinic: Investment Masterclass: Stuart Kirk has ‘skin in the game’

      The former asset manager on being radically open about his portfolio’s performance

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Active management is a sham — no wonder my returns are suspect

      I’m a hypocrite for deriding stock pickers but choosing my own funds

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvesting in funds
      Weddings and divorce: the scourge of investment returns

      I was calculating Sharpe ratios during my marriage vows

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      I’m no wide-boy trader but I’m minded to flip my bank ETF

      The share price returns of European lenders say it all, really

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI could learn a thing or two from Barry Humphries and Credit Suisse

      The comedian’s intellectual rigour and deep research resulted in effortless delivery

      Montage of images of Dame Edna with a background of a page from a dictionary and a computer chip
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Why I got it wrong about offices, according to readers

      My hypothesis that yields are attractive has three flaws, apparently

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvestments
      Everyone hates offices — I want to buy them

      The question is whether the risks in commercial property are discounted

    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Why I won’t be pondering sterling’s rally down the pub

      How exchange rates affect portfolios is too complex to worry about

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      I’m fully invested . . . and now there’s no one else to blame

      Sitting on cash was excruciating, but did I rush to buy?

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Financial services
      Banks might behave responsibly if treated like adults

      The failings of intrusive financial supervision have never been more obvious

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Time to cut banker pay once and for all

      As an investor it’s the thing that matters for bank shares

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