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Can Russia reduce its reliance on oil and gas?
Thursday 24 Sep 2020Oil prices have had a very turbulent year. The fossil fuel traded above $70 per barrel in January as simmering tensions between the US and Iran threatened an escalated conflict in the Middle East and oil is now priced at around half that level. The futures contracts on the US benchmark WTI dipped...
Not furloughing staff could be a badge of quality for a business
Thursday 17 Sep 2020The UK Government’s wage subsidy scheme is due to end in October, a deadline that could spark a fresh wave of corporate redundancies and financial stress. For investors, this means taking action to ensure their stock portfolios are culled of potential financial basket cases and focused on quality...
Animal magic: solid growth outlook for pet-related companies
Thursday 17 Sep 2020People have continued to spend on the health and wellbeing of their pets during the pandemic, implying that retailers and service providers in this area should be fairly resilient. While the UK pet population has been broadly stable for the past decade, spending on pets has grown by 7% annually...
Value investing: the comeback kid
Thursday 17 Sep 2020Surely every investor loves a bargain and in various ways all investors think of themselves as value investors. Sadly, what’s been working for investors since the great financial crisis of 2008 is more akin to quality and growth investing. This strategy focuses on the potential growth and quality...
$760 billion cloud opportunity: prime reasons to invest in this computing market
Thursday 10 Sep 2020UK investors have become increasingly familiar with the ‘cloud’, and not just because Brits like talking about the weather. The emergence of cloud computing has been one of the most successful investment themes over the past decade, but its growth has years to run, with Fortune Business Insights...
Property owners and retailers face new test as work habits evolve
Thursday 10 Sep 2020Summer is over, schools are back and in any other year people would be returning from the beach to the office. Covid-19 has rendered 2020 different for all sorts of reasons and despite a Government push to get people back at their desk, many continue to work from home. This has big near-term and...
Nice and simple portfolio: Seven ETFs are all you need
Thursday 03 Sep 2020Investing doesn’t need to be hard, complicated or even require a lot of time, and you certainly don’t need dozens of all different kinds of investments in your portfolio. In fact, seven funds could be enough. And they needn’t be active funds either. Picking the right fund and fund manager is always...
Exploring small cap stocks on single-digit multiples
Thursday 03 Sep 2020With markets and financial commentators seemingly obsessed with the notion of big companies getting bigger – Apple being a prime example, having doubled in value to a record-breaking $2 trillion just in the last two years – investors shouldn’t overlook the long-term attraction of smaller companies...
How benchmarks can help to evaluate performance and highlight risk
Thursday 03 Sep 2020Imagine setting off on a long journey to the other side of the world and not knowing how long it will take, except you want to complete it in under a year. By identifying staging posts before you set off, you will be better informed about how far along you are at given points in time. In the same...
Energy storage theme offers growth and tasty dividends
Thursday 27 Aug 2020Many investors are well versed in the attractions of renewable energy as an investment theme, and retail fund flows into green energy and environmental funds continued unabated even during the market sell-off caused by the pandemic. The move to a zero-carbon future will increase the need for energy...