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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, 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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?

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