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  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    Investing in funds
    Research advises caution over fund managers who switch firms

    Short-term performance could improve, but dwindle later

    A market analyst at work on a stock screen
  • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
    Unilever PLC
    Unilever has ‘lost the plot’ by fixating on sustainability, says Terry Smith

    Public display of climate and social credentials comes at cost to the business, claims fund manager

    Terry Smith
  • Sunday, 19 April, 2020
    FTfm
    Can anything stop Terry Smith?

    Ten years after launching UK’s largest fund, pugilistic stockpicker is bullish about latest crisis

  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
    Terry Smith collects £16m after Fundsmith profits soar 25%

    Investor’s fortune stands in stark contrast to that of fallen stockpicker Neil Woodford

    Terry Smith's flagship UK equity fund has benefited from the implosion of Neil Woodford's investment empire
  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    Fund management
    BDO resigns as auditor to £19bn UK money manager Fundsmith

    Investment company run by Terry Smith appoints Deloitte as replacement

    PP642R A logo sign outside of a facility occupied by BDO (Binder Dijker Otte) in Vienna, Austria, on September 5, 2018.
  • Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
    Terry Smith
    Busting the myths of investment: who needs income?

    Tax and a higher market price mean reinvested dividends are no bargain

    Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett waves to shareholders as he arrives to play table tennis outside the company-owned Borsheims jewelry store in Omaha, Neb., Sunday, May 7, 2017. The annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting is winding to an end. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
  • Friday, 7 September, 2018
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Trust launches show potential and — for once — fairer fees

    Stockpickers look to global small-caps as the allure of tech fades

    Businessman checking stock market data. He using a mobile phone. Analysis economy data on forex earn graph.
  • Tuesday, 4 September, 2018
    Fund management
    Fundsmith challenges fund fee norms with new trust

    Fund management company will absorb all launch costs for Smithson Investment Trust

  • Monday, 22 January, 2018
    Investing in funds
    Large hidden fund charges revealed by Mifid II rules

    Janus Henderson, BlackRock and Vanguard funds cost up to four times more than thought

    Blackrock. City of London. 10/1/17
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2017
    Sustainability
    Fund manager Terry Smith targets institutions with new launch

    Sustainability fund will shun ‘sin stocks’ including pornography, oil and tobacco

  • Friday, 17 February, 2017
    Terry Smith
    Emerging market ETFs and the jaws of death

    Huge inflows have gone into the largest companies — but they are not good companies

    EB014M White shark, charcaredon carcharias
  • Thursday, 17 March, 2016
    Banks
    Terry Smith sues Barclays for £220,000 over money transfer

    Fund manager claims ‘atrocious’ service from the bank lost him potential profit

  • Friday, 20 November, 2015
    Investments
    Terry Smith: What I have learnt at Fundsmith in the past five years

    Fund manager Terry Smith looks back and reveals his best-performing share

    Terry Smith is pictured during an interview at the Financial Times building in London.
  • Friday, 9 January, 2015
    Accountancy
    What exactly do we mean by ‘shareholder value’?

    Returns consistently exceed the cost of capital

  • Friday, 5 December, 2014
    US & Canadian companies
    Let’s all do the corporate hokey-cokey

    Companies that grew by merger are now rushing to split themselves up

  • Friday, 28 November, 2014
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Time to bring trackers out of the closet

    Suggestions pour in for funds with high ‘active share’

  • Friday, 31 October, 2014
    Banks
    Why I don’t own bank shares

    Banks rely on leverage just to make a living

  • Monday, 22 September, 2014
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    Of Tesco value points and returns
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2014
    Fund management
    Terry Smith talks PepsiCo, Nestlé and fears about Neil Woodford

    The asset manager has an appealingly simple back-to-basics approach

    Terry Smith
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2014
    Fund management
    Fundsmith CEO down on global growth

    Investment house believes economic recovery may already be slowing

  • Friday, 4 April, 2014
    Investments
    Stars in their eyes

    Star fund managers are the galacticos of finance

    Soccer player about to kick ball mid air --- Image by © Tim Pannell/Corbis
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2014
    Fund management
    Movers & shakers: March 17

    BlackRock has appointed Helen Zhu as head of China equities

  • Friday, 24 January, 2014
    Personal Finance
    Just the facts when weighing investments

    Tech group’s story is more robust than it seems

  • Friday, 24 January, 2014
    Investments
    New Fundsmith emerging markets trust

    High-conviction manager plans fund launch later in 2014

  • Friday, 6 December, 2013
    Investments
    It’s déjà vu all over again

    Many dubious investment products have been sold before

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