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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.
  • Friday, 17 October, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    If we’re being encouraged to own shares, we must also learn how to hedge them

    Luckily, it has never been cheaper or easier for retail investors to access the power of options

    A woman sits at a desk in front of a computer displaying a stock chart, with a yellow zigzag arrow overlay symbolizing market volatility.
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    Skin in the GameEquities
    Think the rally may continue but may also tank? You’ve got options

    Investors shouldn’t make directional calls but compare pay-offs and risk

    Finger pressing a tipping scale downwards with a pound sign on the higher end.
  • Friday, 3 October, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Greed is my fourth-quarter investment strategy

    I’ve loved the AI boom this year and don’t want it to stop

  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    Technology sector
    Shareholders should have more say over the AI rush

    Mega-deals, such as Nvidia’s plan to invest $100bn in OpenAI, need more scrutiny

    Sam Altman and Jensen Huang standing together and smiling.
  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Mistiming markets may ravage your retirement

    Retirees must be patient and try to invest when markets are weak

  • Friday, 5 September, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    I can take or leave central bank independence, frankly

    It makes no difference to growth and policymakers are always in hock to someone

    Montage image of the Federal Reserve building, Washington DC
  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    Companies
    It’s time to shut up and get on with it

    Words are replacing action, but success doesn’t manifest itself

    SpaceX Super Heavy booster with Starship lifts off
  • Friday, 15 August, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    How to invest in a stock market bubble

    The three lessons I learnt as a professional money manager

  • Friday, 8 August, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    I’m with Trump: US payrolls data is pure BLS

    Change is needed as markets are wrongly obsessed by this flawed release

    Montage of Donald Trump against a background of the New York stock exchange
  • Friday, 25 July, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    My latest nice problem is Japan

    A positive trade deal with the US masks a year of zero equity returns in sterling

  • Friday, 18 July, 2025
    Skin in the GameInsight & Comment
    Don’t poison my golden goose, Rachel

    My strong returns owe much to UK equities — but if pushed to buy more I’ll do the opposite

    Rachel Reeves speaks at a podium with two microphones, against a backdrop of red and white financial charts and stock market data
  • 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

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