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. - -
Matthew Vincent: Great expectations need a reality check
Investors still have great expectations of equities, and of UK fund managers – but they should be questioning the latest profit forecasts
A manifesto for the reform of fund fees
For how long can you levy charges on individuals, without giving them a say in how it is done? I continue to ask this question of fund managers
Matthew Vincent: A burning issue for index trackers
Treason and plot were just a few of the accusations levelled against me, for the apparently incendiary suggestion that the hidden costs of investment funds were a menace
Matthew Vincent: Total Expenses Robbery
One former fund manager believes the industry is short changing customers to the tune of £5.8bn – by keeping charges hidden
Operate a new system of income investing
As Apple and Microsoft continue to do battle, Far Eastern tech stocks are doing something revolutionary: paying dividends
Sitting on the unpopular side of defence
For how long can you go on defending the indefensible? That rather depends on whether you’re an MP or a journalist writing about structured products
Social mores for a less prosperous era
This week, lengthening recession and deepening government debt brought about a change in etiquette: brutal honesty is now the best policy
Opposites attract, particularly now
It’s not easy being contrarian. It never has been.
The rich raise the cry of ‘No surrender’
T he more you have to lose, the harder it is to admit you’ve lost. History books are full of great leaders who – considering what was at stake – simply refused to concede defeat: Charles I, Lord Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Silvio Berlusconi…
The rich raise the cry of ‘No surrender’
This week’s “FutureWealth” research astonished me: spite of “financial Armageddon”, two out of three millionaires say they were no worse off
