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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, 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

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Boy or man, I’m into inflation-protected bonds

      But am I willing to lose my shirt with a punt on interest rates?

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Clutching Warren’s letter, I’m still positive on stocks

      It took a while, but I learnt long ago that negativity really doesn’t pay

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      The trouble with corporate bonds

      Defaults always scare me — are yields worth the risk?

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Passive Investing
      Sit back and let the bots, MBAs and consultants slug it out

      A passive portfolio does not care about who wins and why

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Being honest about my portfolio performance

      ‘OK’ outcomes in my first quarter’s investment results

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Corporate tax should be zero but investors needn’t worry about it

      Tax rates make little difference to equity returns

    • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
      Skin in the GameInvestments
      Sectors make sense for investors, not themes

      Avoid thematic funds. And I should know, as ex-head of thematic research at a global bank

      Pattern of stock screens
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Where’s the elusive productivity boost?

      There is still value in equities, if you can find it

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Equities
      Asset managers, please spare us your polyexcuses

      Blaming bad results on world crises displays a woeful reluctance to take responsibility for misjudged investments

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    • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Why I need to take control of my pension

      Switching into a Sipp offers much more in investment choice

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      I’m an equities guy, but now I’m eyeing bonds

      Rates look like they are nearing a top and yields will ease next year

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Time to seek out Asia’s company dragons

      For too long investors have been neglected by businesses in the region, but times are changing

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Social affairs
      Enough longtermism — we need to think about now

      Why devote effort to an unrealised future when events with a 100% probability of occurring exist today?

      Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones guitarist
    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Stock investors needn’t lose sleep over rates

      Our columnist has bought into US equities and is happy to ignore the doom-mongers

    • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
      Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
      Putting my money where my mouth is

      Our new columnist sets out his investment stall and reveals he still has faith in UK stocks

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Fund management
      The banking approach to net zero is just claptrap

      The numbers are hokum, the clients are left in the dark and the real world impact is negligible anyway

      People pass in front of a wall lit with the sign of COP27
    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Moral Money
      Stuart Kirk returns to the ESG debate Premium content

      Plus, are Japan’s responsible business traditions still working?

      Stuart Kirk speaking at a lectern at an FT conference
    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      ESG investing
      Stuart Kirk: ESG must be split in two

      If we do not disentangle the industry’s dual meanings, it will not progress

      A photo illustration juxtaposing polluting and green energy
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