MATTHEW VINCENT
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Matthew Vincent is the personal finance editor of the Financial Times. In this role, he edits the Weekend Money section and presents the FT Money Show podcast, as well as writing for the daily newspaper and FT Wealth magazine.
He was previously editor of Investors Chronicle, where he presented the award-winning online video The Market Programme, and launched the BBC-FT standalone magazine ‘How to be Better Off’. He began his career on the consumer finance magazine Moneywise, which he went on to edit for five years, and has since written columns for The Spectator and presented TV programmes for BBC2. - -
Commission accomplished
How do you make a Maltese cross? The answer, as any schoolboy knows, is “poke him with a sharp stick”
Not a mission impossible
Why is it still impossible for a fund manager to offer a low-cost fund that can beat the index? Is this another peculiarly British failing?
Matthew Vincent: Waiting for a confident recovery
Far be it from me to dent investors’ confidence, but there are two small problems with all the bullish sentiment indicators being published right now
Matthew Vincent: Keystone cops bring down Keydata
By lurching from good cop to bad cop, the FSA has destroyed confidence in a whole range of structured product providers, when none were at fault – or in default
Matthew Vincent: Is it a fair cop?
Independent financial advisers fear regulatory scrutiny of their asset allocation choices – and they have case to answer over costs and correlations
Matthew Vincent: Fund managers jump into the market
Fund managers have leapt into equity markets with the courage of their convictions – but with the investment equivalent of a parachute strapped to their portfolios
Putting on a brave face
Fear and greed, as we all know, drive the market. What we’ve found out this week is how quickly investors can become emboldened – and voracious.
Matthew Vincent: Tain’t no big thing, the toll of the bell
They rang the bell twice on one stockbrokers’ trading floor, to mark record-breaking trading volumes. But fund investors are less likely to follow these sharedealing bellwethers
Triple injustice puts Sir Fred in front
Closer inspection of the proposed – and already imposed – changes to pension taxation reveal three injustices. All of them visit the sins of the RBS banker upon the pension saver
High earners pay the consequences
Last year, I suggested: “Chancellors should pay less lip service to golden rules, and more attention to the law of unintended consequences. Alistair Darling, it seeems, has grasped 50 per cent – in more ways than one
