In this week's Chart of the Week, Richard shows how over the past three years, UK investment trusts have notably underperformed the FTSE 250 index (excluding investment trusts), largely due to the mis-application of expenses. Critics argue rising bond yields played a role; whilst they are not wrong, we contend a central issue is the way internal expenses were incorrectly presented as additional charges.

In this week's Chart of the Week, Portfolio Manager Lorenzo La Posta highlights the past five years' total returns of Italy's UniCredit Bank versus the Magnificent 7 tech giants. Despite having nothing inherently "magnificent" about it, this Italian banking group has quietly and substantially outperformed them, proving that the best investments are often overlooked.

In this week's chart Grégoire shows the recent spike in oil price (Brent crude) following the June 13 Israel attack on Iran and how oil prices tend to be driven by several important factors such as supply, demand, and market sentiment & speculation.

In this week’s Chart of the Week, Gabby Byron explores NATO’s new 5% defence spending pledge and the sharp rally in European defence stocks so far this year.

In this week's Chart of the Week, Fund Manager Richard Parfect spotlights the progress of the Momentum GF Real Assets Growth & Income (RAGI) Fund, launched in April 2024.

In this week's Chart of the Week Tom details how US federal interest payments are on track to hit an 85-year high of over 4% of GDP by 2035, fuelled by increasing debt and normalising interest rates.

In this week's Chart of the Week, Jonathan illustrates the recovery and surge of Germany's DAX index, contrasting with the modest gains in US markets and highlighting Germany's economic resilience and strategic fiscal reorientation.