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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, 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?

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
    Stock investors needn’t lose sleep over rates

    Our columnist has bought into US equities and is happy to ignore the doom-mongers

  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    Skin in the GameAdvice & Comment
    Putting my money where my mouth is

    Our new columnist sets out his investment stall and reveals he still has faith in UK stocks

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