Author
Student Investor Editorial Team
Every article on the Student Investor blog is written and edited by our editorial team. We explain how shares and markets work in plain English, for students taking part in the Student Investor Challenge and the teachers who run it.
We cover the basics of investing, the week’s market news and what it means for a virtual portfolio, and practical guides to the Challenge itself: leagues, rankings and the semi-finals. Articles are educational and are not financial advice.
Contact the editorial team
- Questions, corrections or partnership ideas: use the contact form and choose a topic. We aim to reply within two working days.
- New articles by email: subscribe to the newsletter.
Articles by the editorial team (142)
- IMF raises UK growth forecast to 1.3% — what a forecast upgrade means
- What Is a Price-to-Book (P/B) Ratio?
- Top 10 Budgeting App Development Companies in 2026
- Saga shares jumped 13% on a profit upgrade
- Tesco shares rose 4% — the buyback story
- What Is a Mutual Fund?
- Why a rival's expansion plan sank Seagate and Western Digital
- What Is a Stop-Loss Order?
- Top 10 Trading Simulator App Development Companies 2026
- IG Group shares fell sharply — the de facto profit warning
- Glencore's ASX Listing: What It Actually Means
- What Is Quantitative Easing?
- AstraZeneca's $2bn Summit Therapeutics stake, explained
- What Is a Yield Curve?
- Top 10 Investment Research Tool Development Companies
- AMD just became a $1 trillion company — what the milestone actually measures
- UK consumer confidence hits a 2-year high
- Classroom Ideas: Teaching Economics and Business with the Student Investor Challenge
- Kingfisher shares jumped 9% on results day
- What Is Portfolio Rebalancing?
- Top 10 Financial Education Software Development Companies
- UK inflation hit 3.1% in August — what fuel prices and the Bank of England mean for investors
- The Fed raised rates for the first time since 2023 — what it means for shares
- What Is Technical Analysis?
- Why falling payrolls hit consumer shares
- What Is Fundamental Analysis?
- Top 10 Portfolio Management App Development Companies in 2026
- Why Primark’s owner fell 8% on a routine update
- Why the ECB raised rates again — and what it means for share investors
- What Is an Income Statement?
- What Is an Exchange Rate — and Why Does It Move Your Shares?
- Why energy bills are rising this October — and what it means for shares
- Top 10 Stock Market App Development Companies in 2026
- How to Run Student Investor at Your School: a Teacher’s Guide
- Apple’s iPhone 18 launch: what investors are really watching
- What is short selling — and why does it matter?
- UK House Prices Rose Again in August — What It Means for Investors
- What Is Beta — and What It Tells You About a Share’s Risk
- Why Nvidia paid $13 billion for an AI platform millions of developers use
- When good jobs news worries markets
- How Many Shares Should You Hold in the Challenge?
- What is market sentiment?
- Why UK gilt yields hit an 18-year high
- What is the FTSE 100 quarterly reshuffle?
- What Is a Cyclical Stock — and What Is a Defensive Stock?
- What Is a Yield?
- Why Reckitt’s court win sent shares up 4% in a day
- What Is ESG Investing? A Beginner’s Guide
- UK PMI August 2026: What the split data means for investors
- Top 10 Fintech App Development Companies for EdTech Platforms in 2026
- UK GDP grew 0.4% in spring — what it means for your shares
- How Your Portfolio Score Is Calculated in the Student Investor Challenge
- What is EBITDA — and why does it matter in company results?
- What is a profit margin — and what it reveals about a company
- Halfords, hot weather and a profit upgrade
- Rate-Hike Odds Hit 54% After Warsh’s Speech — How Markets Price a Rate Move
- Picking your first shares in the Student Investor challenge
- What is liquidity — and why it matters which shares you pick
- Why the Fed Watches PCE, Not CPI — and What July’s Hotter Reading Means
- What is a balance sheet?
- US Consumer Confidence Falls to a Seven-Month Low — and What It Tells Investors
- What is cash flow?
- Jackson Hole 2026: Why a Speech in Wyoming Can Move Stock Markets Worldwide
- Four routes to the Student Investor semi-finals
- What is a rights issue?
- Nvidia’s results this week: what ‘priced in’ really means
- What is revenue — and how does it differ from profit?
- Why UK Retail Sales Fell in July — and What It Teaches Investors
- What is a stock market index?
- JD Sports’ profit warning: what the US slump teaches
- Why the Challenge gives you two portfolios — and what each one teaches you
- Why UK inflation jumped to 2.9%
- How to research a share before buying it in the Challenge
- What is earnings per share — and why it moves a share price?
- When UK jobs data sends two signals at once
- What Is Asset Allocation?
- Why UK asking prices just recorded their worst August drop in eight years
- What is a profit warning?
- Why a Chilean storm hit FTSE 100 mining shares
- What is a recession?
- Aviva profit up 24% — why the shares barely moved
- Why buyout news can lift stocks you don’t own: the Workday lesson
- What is a commodity?
- What you can win in the Student Investor Challenge
- CoreWeave grew 112% and still lost $626m — here is what that teaches you
- Unilever raises guidance: why shares jumped 8% on its best results in a decade
- When good results still hurt a share price: the Spirax lesson
- Growth vs value stocks: what’s the difference?
- Why Balfour Beatty shares hit a record high: the infrastructure lesson
- Why the US inflation report moves markets
- Why merger rumours move two shares in opposite directions
- What is a stock market sector?
- America’s record earnings season — what the numbers teach you
- What a blue-chip stock actually is
- Persimmon rises 4%: what housebuilder results teach you
- How the Strait of Hormuz moved energy shares
- What a takeover does to shares
- Getting started: a teacher’s guide to running Student Investor with your class
- How banks actually make money
- How Diageo’s shares jumped on a profit fall
- What is an ETF, and how does it work?
- What is a lockup period?
- What guidance means for shares
- When bad jobs news is good for shares
- What a stock split is
- Why supply chains move share prices
- What an IPO is — and the SpaceX rollercoaster
- The Dow just passed 54,000 — what a round number really means
- How to build a Student Investor team of four that works
- What is a price-to-earnings ratio?
- How the market rises when big stocks fall
- The FTSE 250 just hit a record high — what the mid-cap index tells you
- The Bank of England held rates — so why is that news?
- Why shares move on earnings news
- What interest rates do to shares
- What a share buyback is
- How the league tables work — and how to climb them
- Why oil prices move the stock market
- What is a bond?
- The FTSE 100 hit a record high — what that actually means
- What is market capitalisation?
- What is volatility, and why prices swing every day
- How to enter the Student Investor Challenge
- What is inflation, and why it quietly matters to savers
- What is a share, really?
- Pound-cost averaging, explained without the maths panic
- What a stock exchange actually does
- Your first week in the Student Investor Challenge
- Bull and bear markets, explained
- Risk and reward, explained simply
- What compounding is, and why it rewards patience
- How the Student Investor semi-finals work
- What a dividend actually is
- The 2026 national final returns to London
- How the news actually moves a share price
- Five mistakes teams make in round one
- The Windfall Tax on idle cash — and why it exists
- Diversification, explained without the jargon
- What a portfolio really is — and why yours has two halves
- How to read a share price without panicking
- Why holding beats trading for most beginners
- Running the challenge in a single lesson a week