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With a mission to ‘change the way the world sees English wine’, Chapel Down has played a pivotal role in establishing English sparkling wine as a category of increasing international recognition.…

With Labour widely tipped to take a parliamentary majority at the next election, Allen Simpson considers the potential economic impact of a Labour government.

Chloe Vernon-Shore, Partner at law firm Michelmores discusses the challenges and opportunities for female business founders in the UK.

To mark his final Prospects article before he retires, Brian Tora reflects on his 60-year career in the investment world and the stark changes the industry has undergone.

Georgie Potter, Specialist Numismatics and Tim Hirsch, Director of Global Auctions at world-leading auction house Spink give a whistle stop tour of the history of coins in the UK.

Dr Charles Godden, a recently retired Consultant Paediatrician and former Non-Executive Director of an NHS Trust, thinks the NHS is at great risk of fragmentation.

To be an investor I think you’ve always got to be optimistic that over the long term the value of your investments will rise, but there are always challenging periods.

At COP 26 the world committed to phase out unabated coal power generation and to cease issuing inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels. The words “unabated” and “inefficient” were both late additions.…

NFT is the hottest acronym on the art market right now, but what exactly is a Non-Fungible Token, and how is it disrupting the art collection and investment world?

Traditionally, they are formed on the field between titans of the game such as Sir Andrew Strauss and Sir Alistair Cook, Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge and Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad.

By the end of the Second World War Britain’s debt ratio to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 250%. By the end of the 1970s - 35 years later - the debt was down to below 40%.

On 1 September, the first of six million young people throughout the United Kingdom gets access to their Child Trust Funds on reaching their 18th birthday.

I used to joke that I can tell which country an investor lives in and which industry she works in just by looking at her portfolio.

While current knowledge is based on new scientific understanding, historical beliefs were often in influenced by what was happening in the economy and society. Sarah Ockwell-Smith takes a brief tour…

People who have cultivated a huge following on social media ( YouTube, Instagram and SnapChat primarily) have been able to get brands to pay them handsomely to mention a product. The most successful…

There is a constant push and pull between the traditional auction forum and the remote digital-based transactions that have become the norm today, and auctioneers have had to adapt to find a balance…

Such visible instability in Government inevitably leads to talk of general elections and suddenly we’re only one step away from the possibility of seeing the keys to 10 Downing Street in the hands of…

We asked investigative photo-journalist Jeremy Hunter to paint a picture of real life in North Korea, beyond the pontifications of the Supreme Leader.North Korea is the most isolated, probably the…

Investors and electors alike should be concerned. There are several players in this field following Cameron’s insistence on a referendum and the less than helpful approach from the European…

What would Her Majesty’s have said if told that the complex models used by most economists took no account of the financial sector or money? Yet such is the case with the New Keynesian “Dynamic…

Institutional investors can do this by spending time with management, interviewing customers and suppliers and comparing their analyses with their target’s competitors. What often blinds these…

Singapore and Hong Kong are the Asian cities that for decades have been cited as the near perfect examples of modern successful economies – places with a dynamism and work ethic that we tired old…

“If the tyrants close the door of migration (to Syria) in your faces, then open the door of jihad in theirs and turn their actions against them,” said an audio clip from an ISIS spokesman, referring…

Will the now self-evident slowdown in the Chinese economy result in a hard landing? Will it prompt another outbreak of deflationary "currency wars” among the world’s biggest economies? Does it…

This should not be a major surprise to us since the West used exactly these ‘hybrid’ methods from Cuba via Iran to the Philippines to subvert governments throughout the Cold War.