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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.
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    How investors can survive the ‘Orange Crash’

    Market meltdowns are all the same — here are six things I’ve learnt

  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Sir Keir will love me, I’m doubling down on UK equities

    It’s finally time to add small-caps to my FTSE 100 exposure   

  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast35 min listen
    Investment Clinic: Should I keep betting on Warren Buffett?

    Margo’s done well following the famous investor’s lead, but it may be time to diversify

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Why I want US shares to leap like Nureyev once more

    Other stock markets are outperforming, but I’m eyeing a chance to sell

  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    ESG investing
    Do financiers believe in sustainability or not?

    They are either being weak or hypocritical in the face of the current backlash

    Cooling towers
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    What we need to see to go all in on European stocks

    It’s been a valuation game so far. Time for companies to invest big

  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    I told you last summer European stocks were a good idea

    Let’s hope you purchased loads of them — I didn’t and here’s why

  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Trump doesn’t keep my portfolio up at night

    One of my cardinal rules for investing is to ignore politics — I’m not breaking it yet

  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Eight investment rules to live and die by

    My father enjoyed a long retirement on a modest pension — here’s how he did it

  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Active ETFs are a wheeze — an extremely clever one

    They undercut traditional managers while upselling traditional ETF investors

  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    Global inflation
    Investors better hope inflation and intangibles never meet

    Unlike physical assets, those we cannot see have never been tested by rising prices

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Why everyone else can panic about rising bond yields

    In the US they signal optimism while I’m loving a weaker pound

  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    My answers to your most popular questions this year

    From investing without losing it, to green finance and getting rich quick

  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Private investing
    Free reader event: Quiz Stuart Kirk on his investment plans for 2025

    FT columnists Stuart Kirk, Claer Barrett and Moria O’Neill to take reader questions at online webinar

    Line-up of Stuart Kirk, Moira O’Neill and Claer Barrett
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump is the poster child of DEI

    His incoming administration illustrates the benefits of diversity

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump walk and talk
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Skin in the GameInvesting in funds
    Why portfolio rebalancing isn’t zen

    Neither theory nor practice supports diligently adjusting your exposures

  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Stock investors needn’t fear tariffs

    Uncertainty around trade merely increases the equity risk premium

  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Skin in the GameInvestments
    Why I’m sticking to my guns with my portfolio

    As I reach the two-year anniversary, I find generally sweet returns — with one flaw

  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Economy
    We forget about comparative advantage at our peril

    Companies and countries should maintain a laser-like focus on what they do best

    Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Skin in the GameUS equities
    Why it’s way easier to call US elections than pick stocks

    Even so, I’m yearning to have a go if only to amuse my readers

  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Should you ever buy a stock index at a record high?

    It feels so wrong, but investors (me included) needn’t worry so much

  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Skin in the GameCorporate earnings and results
    A beginner’s guide to US earnings season

    Corporate profits matter, but some results matter more than others

  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Banks
    It’s about time bankers were cool again

    The stigma that finance has long endured is both out-of-date and unwarranted

    The cast of BBC’s Industry
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    In investing, what if bad is good and good is bad?

    As with parenting, constraints are not enemies. Quite the opposite in fact

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Skin in the GameInvestments
    Three big investment questions I’m asking now — and so should you

    As the fourth quarter looms, portfolio risk, US equities and China are all that matters

    A Chinese dragon and bull face each other with US Federal Reserve logo in the background
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