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.
4 April 2026
Explaining the difference between the most popular global tracker fundsGlobal tracker funds and ETFs are one of the most popular ways for investors to gain access to the market.
These passive instruments track an underlying index. Tracking refers to the strategy of building an investment portfolio designed to mimic rather than beat the performance of a specific market, giving exposure to all the companies in that...
28 March 2026
Why most fund managers ignore crypto despite its bumper returnsBitcoin has become a catch-all term for all things cryptocurrency, an asset which has captured investors' attention for the best part of two decades. Yet it's an investment which has largely been shunned by professionals in the fund manager space.
Launched in 2009 by the anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto as a rebellion to the traditional banking...
24 March 2026
Three reasons selling your investments in a panic can really cost youAn often-repeated mantra of investing – which has reappeared with understandable frequency over the past month – is that it's also about time in the market rather than timing the market.
Putting your money to work and then leaving it to benefit from the compound effect is an approach which has been proven to work historically.
But human emotions...
23 March 2026
Why some of the biggest tech investors are moving away from the Mag 7The Magnificent Seven, a collection of the biggest US technology firms, have been a key feature of global equity funds for the better part of the decade. This is in part because their market dominance demanded a place, and high returns made it hard to argue against holding them.
Made up of Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple joined by Microsoft...
20 March 2026
The funds that could help you avoid sleepless nightsThere’s plenty of news to keep investors' brains buzzing right now. The ongoing message from an investment perspective is to ignore the noise and not panic. But there are some funds designed to provide exactly the sort of reassurance and wealth preservation some people will be looking for, not just during a crisis, but against any market backdrop.
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20 March 2026
Why investment trusts are buying themselves more than everShare buybacks are a commonplace market phenomenon, but it’s a tool that’s used for widely different reasons.
The practice involves a listed firm buying back its own stock so that the total amount of its shares in issue is reduced. The overall aim is to enhance the value of the remaining shares and for standard public trading companies, this is...
19 March 2026
How top fund managers are responding to renewed inflation risksThe rise in oil and gas prices has sparked fears of a 2022-style inflation crisis reemerging, with energy costs set to rise as the war in Iran continues.
A repeat of this could be painful for investors because 2022 saw both equities and bonds experience negative returns for the first time since 1977. This meant even portfolios which were...
17 March 2026
Why active versus passive investing isn’t so black and white anymoreEqual weighed exchange-traded funds (ETFs for short) have emerged as one of the more popular investment trends in recent months as investors seek new ways to diversify their exposure to major equity markets.
These products are distinct from a ‘typical’ ETF, because rather than the largest companies by market value having the biggest influence on...
16 March 2026
How I invest: From trying to cover train fares to being a student of Buffett“Do your reading.” That’s the first step for anyone wanting to take the plunge into the stock market, according to 56-year-old Simone.
For her, what this looked like was six months spent properly getting to grips with the basics before she made her first investment; learning the difference between shares and funds, then passive and actively...
5 March 2026
Why size isn't everything as number of FTSE 100 investment trusts hits record highThe FTSE 100 welcomed another investment trust to its ranks this month, with a record seven now members of the UK’s blue-chip index.
Tritax Big Box REIT was promoted from the FTSE 250 after a rally in its share price and M&A activity saw it become a £4 billion plus trust.
It joins 3i Group, Scottish Mortgage, Pershing Square Holdings, F&C, Alliance...
