Eve joined AJ Bell in 2026 as a funds and investment trust writer. She was previously editor at Investment Week, reporting on all major retail investor news, covering funds and investment trusts, ETFs and regulation, as well as macroeconomic events.
She also produced major studies analysing investment performance, fees and volatility alongside running several investigations.
Eve started out as a journalist when she was 16 and began writing about the financial markets back in 2019.
29 July 2026
Should you care if your manager has skin in the game?When you hear fund managers talking about ‘skin in the game’, it’s usually referring to the manager investing their own money in the same fund that they’re running.
It's a fairly common phenomenon. Richard Staveley of Rockwood Strategic trust and Stephen Yiu of the Blue Whale Growth fund both make it well known that they eat their own cooking. In...
28 July 2026
Three reasons selling your investments in a panic can really cost youAn often-repeated mantra of investing is that it's also about time in the market rather than timing the market.
Equity markets have been dealt their latest wobble during a major earnings week as the top AI spenders are reporting just how that investment is paying off for them so far.
Volatility is an expected part of investing. But that doesn't...
28 July 2026
Who should be buying high yield bond fundsThe intense levels of geopolitical volatility have sent bond yields up to some of their highest levels since the 2007/8 crash, and investors have been moving into the space as a result to try and capture them.
Bond funds in general saw their strongest monthly inflows since June 2023, according to Calastone, a fund transaction network.
Indeed, May...
27 July 2026
What should you hold in your portfolio? Four investors, four different answersWhat you should invest in is a big question to answer, and it requires a lot of personal understanding of yourself and an ability to ignore what other people are doing.
This may sound like something you’d hear in a therapist's office, but they’re entirely relevant objectives for investors as well.
A major question you must answer is ‘how much risk...
27 July 2026
Beware of a new concentration risk creeping into your portfolioConcentration risk can happen in a myriad of ways in a portfolio. It occurs when there’s an over-reliance to generate returns built on a single asset class or sector.
It's the opposite to diversification, which encourages spreading the risk of potential losses by having several engine drivers in your portfolio, a classic case being a multi-asset...
23 July 2026
How I invest: The dad making sure his kids will retire early as wellRobert, 65, is currently enjoying the slower pace of retired life. A keen cyclist, now with more time explore the National Cycle Network routes near – and far – from his home in the northeast, and bond with his first grandchild.
But the foundations of this were set over 40 years beforehand when, at aged 21, Robert got his first job and asked the...
18 July 2026
The role bonds can play in an investment portfolioJust like mechanics need to know how different cogs work in an engine, it’s helpful for investors to understand how different products can work alongside each other in an ISA or pension.
Shares get a lot of attention when people start to explore investing, but what’s often underappreciated is the role that bonds can play in a diversified portfolio...
17 July 2026
How to tell if a fund manager’s process pivot is a red or green flagChange and evolution to an investment process are two sides of the same coin, the former a red flag to investors that something may be awry in the fund and the latter, a mark of true active management to steer a portfolio through changing markets.
It's a conversation which has been stirred up by the high-profile changes to Fundsmith Equity after...
17 July 2026
Why your tracker fund didn’t match the benchmarkPassive funds are designed to replicate a specific part of the market, mimicking the stock weightings and exposure in a cheap, useful package. Why then do some make better returns than the market, and many actually make less?
Tracker funds or ETFs are some of the most popular products for stock market exposure because you can get a lot for your...
16 July 2026
How to distinguish genuine investment themes from ‘fads’Markets are full of investment themes, the most popular of late being AI, with debates around robotics and drones abounding in conversations about the next emerging cutting-edge area.
But what actually makes something a long-term, investable strategy versus a flash in the pan frothy fad or trend?
A myriad of exchange traded fund (ETF) and thematic...
