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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...

Festival fans fall foul of fake tickets

“Stagflation is the optimistic scenario”

King Dollar wobbles on his throne

Severe blow to Vietnam’s stocks

No safe harbour in Asia

Viewpoint

■ Oil prices slip further as growth fades

Panic now, float later • Lender Klarna has postponed its US initial public offering owing to the market turbulence. It is not alone. Matthew Partridge reports

Raspberry Pi looks too rich

Vikings gobble up UK rival

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

A German view

IPO watch

News

The quest to colonise Mars • Donald Trump wants to plant the US flag on the red planet. Will it happen? Simon Wilson reports

The long, painful decline of BP • Long-suffering shareholders in the oil giant have been pushing for change. It won’t come soon enough

City talk

Riding out the chaos • Our ETF portfolio is meeting expectations so far, but this turmoil may be its toughest test yet

I wish I knew what a barbell strategy was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

A change to our investment trusts • Mid Wynd’s five-year stint in the MoneyWeek portfolio has come to an end

Activist watch

Short positions... AVI Japan makes hostile bid for rival

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

Why has the US gone crazy?

Why not impose a wealth tax?

In praise of idleness

Germany sidles up to Putin

Stop! The pips are squeaking already! • Ideologues want to squeeze more tax out of the rich. They’re already wrung dry, says Merryn Somerset Webb

Acorns to mighty oaks • The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is risky but potentially lucrative, says David Prosser

The SEIS scheme’s winners

A vital engine for start-ups

The cunning plan behind Trump’s tariffs • Every right-thinking person knows that free trade is a surer route to the wealth of nations than protectionism. What is Trump thinking? Stuart Watkins reports

Where there’s a will... • Don’t leave the allocation of your assets to chance. Here’s how to get started

A rare decline in cost of childcare

Pocket money... BA’s new loyalty scheme fails to take off

Keep calm and carry on • Sliding stockmarkets are no reason to sell out of your pension in a panic

Should your fund put profit first?

News in brief... a pension raid for growth

Investment trusts tap the profits in exotic and obscure global markets • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Peter Walls, manager of the Unicorn Mastertrust fund, highlights three favourites

Alex

The quintessential corporate hippy • Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is seeking to break away from the conglomerate he sold out to in 2000. It’s a battle for the soul of the brand synonymous with corporate do-gooding. Jane Lewis reports

The new masters of Wall Street

Two Greek islands with a difference • Nicole García Mérida visits Andronis Minois on Paros and Andronis Concept on Santorini

A blast from the past • The new Renault 5...