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A tough first day back for the markets served an instant reminder of last year's problems

My final column for Investors Chronicle is a chance to ruminate on lessons learnt over a decade in the investment industry

Clothing retailers look worryingly dependent on last-minute Christmas shopping after a soggy November

Why Buffett's scorn for airline investments looks short-sighted in the case of the UK low-cost carrier

The brakes put on the buy-to-let property market are partial and political

Rhetoric in the telecoms industry has ratcheted up, but is BT's 'monopoly' really an unfair advantage?

Politicians pick a path between bad value and bad take-up

Don't be fooled by the financial sector's apparent profitability: it creams off wealth created by others

Aim is seen as the stockpicker's domain, but there are plenty of investors simply there for the tax benefits

The room-sharing portal may throw the hotel operators off their roll eventually - but perhaps not as early as some expect