Investing Passive

If you didn’t already know, there are several companies in the Morningstar family, and one of them – Pitchbook – runs ongoing dedicated analysis of the world of venture capital.…

In a year of subdued economic growth, the market is watching China’s 20th Communist Party Congress closely for clues on what might happen next. The Congress starts 16 October with…

New chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt has ripped up the government’s mini-Budget policies, announcing an extraordinary U-turn on plans to lower tax. The planned cut in income tax next…

Sunniva Kolostyak: Contrary to what you might think, greenwashing and a lack of standardisation are not ESG’s biggest problems. Even more significant is the co-ordinated campaign of divestment being levelled…

This article was originally published for Morningstar.co.uk in May 2022, and is reproduced here with thanks to Jon Hale as part of a special week of content on ESG What…

It’s ESG week here at Morningstar so instead of looking for undervalued stocks we’re seeking out the most sustainable ones. This is harder than it looks. We could immediately look…

The prime minister has performed a dramatic sacking today, ousting chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng after just 37 days as he returned from the IMF in Washington. Liz Truss also confirmed a…

At the start of the week the chancellor bowed to market pressure and agreed to bring forward publication of his “medium-term” fiscal plan, detailing how planned tax cuts — or…

While consumers found relief at the gas pump in September, inflation remained a significant problem elsewhere, leading markets to look for even still more aggressive interest rate increases from the…