magazine 5 Sep 2024

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The world is ageing, find out the implications for financial markets. Plus, whether bigger is better when it comes to investment trends as mergers continue.

Move to AI, cloud and subscriptions has lots of potential but remains unproven

Poorer US shoppers are under pressure and the discounter is struggling with rising levels of ‘shrink’

Quarterly rebalancing sees luxury goods firm exit the UK’s flagship index and Raspberry Pi enter the FTSE 250

In June Windward launched an AI-powered virtual agent for the maritime and logistics industries

Company is targeting opening 50 new sites over three years

Analysts say parallels to Trent 1000 problems wide of the mark

US and European central banks poised for September rate cuts

How to invest for a demographic dividend

From the list, Ocado and Burberry have been relegated from the FTSE 100 and Pennon faces regulatory scrutiny

Closed-ended funds are combining amid persistently wide discounts

Why the sector is at an inflection point and why Rightmove should show resolve

Company should command a significant premium if any deal is to get over the line

Short-term issues are clouding its long-run attractions

Growth, earnings, sentiment and valuation all look to be at trough levels

Falling rates will boost the relative yield attractions of this sustainability-focused fund

Looking at how markets have reacted to previous moves by the Bank of England and Federal Reserve