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AI & Agents

Building My First AI Agents: The S&P 500 and IBEX 35 Quality Screeners

How I built my first AI agents — two weekly quality screeners combining fundamental and technical filters with a Groq tool-use loop, running on GitHub Actions with no server. And why agents aren't just for engineers.

September 2026
Opinion

Control Is the Whole Game: What Real Madrid, Spain and Football Taught Me About Finance

From the 2017 Champions League final in Cardiff to Spain's last match against Belgium — why the unglamorous discipline of building systems, controls and the right reports is what actually makes a finance professional valuable.

July 2026
Personal Finance

The Smartest £25 You Can Spend on Your Child's Future: Junior SIPPs Explained

How opening a pension for your child at birth — with just £1,000 and £25/month — could hand them a quarter of a million pounds at retirement. The maths, the government top-up, and why time is the scarcest asset of all.

June 2026
Opinion

Why an ECB Rate Hike on June 11 Would Be the Wrong Response to the Iran Oil Shock

Markets are pricing a 99% probability of a 25bp ECB hike to 2.25% on June 11. The inflation is real, but it's a structural supply shock from the Iran war — not demand. Monetary policy can't make oil cheaper, and Trichet's 2008 mistake is about to be repeated.

June 2026
Corporate Finance

The Most Important IFRS and IAS Standards Every Finance Professional Should Know

A plain-English guide to the IFRS and IAS standards that move real financial statements — IFRS 9, 15, 16, IAS 1, 36, 37 and the rest of the standards that matter in practice.

May 2026
Opinion

Real Assets, Balance Sheets and Where the Opportunities Are Hiding

If contrarian value is the only edge in a zero-ERP world, how do you find it? Read the balance sheet. The five places real assets hide at historical cost, the screens that surface them, and the sectors trading well below replacement value.

May 2026

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