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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.
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Capital markets
    All hail the equity vigilantes

    Bond markets can’t stand up to profligate governments alone

    Montage of the New York Stock Exchange, Capitol Hill, Westminster and a downward graph arrow
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    An entry-level guide to valuing stocks

    The fancy methodologies don’t work anyway — this is all you need

  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Skin in the GameCurrencies
    My five reasons to buy US equities again

    For the first time in two summers I’m uncomfortable with a zero weighting

  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Why I haven’t jumped on the gold-crypto trade

    Equities have much of the same qualities and don’t write off bonds quite yet

  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    Global Economy
    No one cares about numbers anymore — go figure

    From stars in the universe to interest rate cuts, digits both large and small now go unchallenged

    Montage image of a woman holding a clipboard and some numbers in the background
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Skin in the GameCurrencies
    The small stuff I’m sweating on before the next Big One

    Financial meltdown averted, I merely worry about inflation, interest rates and the dollar

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Trump made me a hundred grand

    There is nothing like irrational mayhem for opportunistic investing

    Montage of Donald Trump with British pound coins in the background
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    On Wall StreetWarren Buffett
    The mass delusion of Buffett worship

    Humans seem to be irrationally predisposed to believing in stockpickers

    Warren Buffett
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Investing is a long-term game, but hours can matter too

    Poor execution of trades can kill returns when markets are volatile

  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Foiling negative returns this year is a balancing act

    Aggressively surfing the waves of volatility has worked so far 

    A person on a hydrofoil surfboard holding a wing sail, jumping mid-air against a vibrant background with stock market charts and graphs
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    US companies
    The silence of the CEOs

    A lack of audible protest against Trump’s tariff chaos is one of the biggest failures of leadership in corporate history

    Montage image of a CEO sitting at a round table, with the other chairs empty, with shipping containers in the background
  • 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
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