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MoneyWeek is a weekly magazine that enables you to become a better-informed, smarter investor and enjoy the rewards of managing your money with confidence. Week-in, week-out we'll guide you through the financial world as it changes, alerting you to all the opportunities to profit and dangers to avoid, as they appear. Income strategies, rising-star companies, the best funds and trusts, clever ways to preserve your wealth during market turmoil... you will get the best ideas from the sharpest financial minds and investing professionals in Britain.

From the editor...

The other billionaire Buffett

US stocks will escape September curse

A setback for America’s crypto crackdown

Diamonds may not be forever

Statist attack on Italy’s stocks

Viewpoint

■ Brent crude oil bubbles up again

Shopping spree in retail • Mike Ashley, owner of Frasers Group, has been building stakes in weak clothing brands. What is he up to? Matthew Partridge reports

Can shrunken Superdry recover?

Executives are fleeing Fortescue

MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips

An American view

IPO watch

The crumbling schools crisis • The reckoning has arrived on an issue successive governments have dodged. Emily Hohler reports

Starmer stakes out the middle ground

EU seeks to loosen its belt • There are signs the bloc wants to expand quickly. Matthew Partridge reports

Africa’s spate of coups

Betting on politics

News

Who will win the streaming wars? • The battle for eyeballs among the media giants selling video content over the internet is hotting up, and leading to new business strategies. Simon Wilson reports

Germany leads the way on tax cuts • Britain is in a similar predicament to Germany. It should follow Olaf Scholz’s good example

City talk

Guesses built on quicksand • Most data is too backward-looking and too prone to revision to be a sensible basis for investment

I wish I knew what a put option was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch • Michael Burry, founder, Scion Asset Management

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

China imported its dynamism

The value of failure

Sweden is a capitalist hero

Give Paddington Bear the boot

The sun is finally rising – slowly – over Japan • Don’t expect stocks to soar into the stratosphere and stay there. But corporate reform, normalising monetary policy and cheap valuations make them a top long-term bet, says Alex Rankine

High yields from corporate debt • Investors have been too quick to flee debt funds, leaving this specialist trust looking very cheap

Activist watch

Short positions... bag an infrastructure bargain

The squeeze on buy-to-let • Rents are on the rise, but so are landlords’ costs. Do your sums carefully

Where to rent rather than buy

Pocket money... NS&I tops the savings charts

Beware of energy brokers • They can save your firm money, but do your homework carefully

Should your business borrow from Amazon?

Petty cash... beef up your cybersecurity

Find bargains in green energy and private equity with investment trusts • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Richard Parfect, fund manager at Momentum Global Investment Management

Alex

The trials of the “Phoney Pharaoh” • Mohamed Al-Fayed started out in life as a street urchin in Alexandria. He rose to become a prominent, if controversial, businessman and public figure. Jane Lewis reports

Joyful Jamaica Inn • Natasha Langan visits the Caribbean island for the sea, sunshine and sustainability

The return of the...