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Fundraisings underline investor preference for long-term growth
Thursday 16 Jul 2020So far this year UK companies have tapped investors for a record £15.7 billion of cash through 217 share placings, according to AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould. ‘The question for investors is whether this rash of fundraisings is a threat, an opportunity or somewhere in between,’ he says. The...
The bosses who have made a mint by dealing shares amid Covid-19
Thursday 09 Jul 2020It can be useful to keep an eye out for directors that are buying and selling shares in their own companies. There is a simple reason for this; those at the top should know the state of their businesses better than anyone and so a chief executive investing his or her hard-earned cash into a company...
Down, up, where next? The outlook for investments after a wild six months
Thursday 09 Jul 2020The last six months have been extremely turbulent for the markets with significant divergence in performance across different regions, sectors and themes. The story has been one of topsy-turvy trading with an alarming cliff edge drop in March, as investors capitulated, and then a rapid recovery...
Digital payments boom: how to profit from the decline of cash
Thursday 02 Jul 2020In 2020 you are no longer faced with the dilemma of fumbling around in your pocket for change to pay for your coffee as the train readies to leave. Instead you can simply tap your debit or credit card, or even your phone or smartwatch, on the machine and get on your way. This is the modern world of...
Stocks that have failed to recover from coronavirus
Thursday 25 Jun 2020Stock markets around the world have staged a big recovery from their March lows, yet there are many individual companies that have stubbornly failed to find their feet. Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s ( SBRY ) and aircraft engines maker Rolls-Royce ( RR. ) are among a small clutch of FTSE 100...
Pubs, hotels and leisure stocks: should you keep your distance?
Thursday 25 Jun 2020Last week saw the much-awaited reopening of ‘non-essential’ retailers, after 12 weeks of lockdown restrictions, with images of crowds milling around at retail parks and lengthy queues outside high-street stores. Research group Springboard says that while consumers have started to return to shops,...
Emerging markets: Views from the experts
Thursday 25 Jun 20201 . The COVID-19 outbreak has heightened global concerns of excessive dependency on China’s manufacturing sector and led governments in many countries to incentivise companies to shift their manufacturing base back home. While we have already seen higher tariffs lead some companies serving the US...
How emerging markets are becoming more middle class
Thursday 25 Jun 2020A big trend in emerging markets over the last decade is the growth of the middle class. According to 2019 estimates from World Data Lab around 600 million Indians are poised to join the ranks of the middle class, with the spending power of this cohort expected to triple to $10.5 trillion...
Fighting climate change: the funds and companies with positive solutions
Thursday 18 Jun 2020Global markets and investors have been held captive by the Covid-19 pandemic in recent months, and rightly so. But as the global conversation gradually moves on from saving lives to savings jobs and shoring up economies, climate change remains the elephant in the room. In April the UK economy...
Winners and losers among housebuilder, portal and estate agent shares as housing market is defrosted
Thursday 18 Jun 2020The housing market is emerging from hibernation but as investors in directly related sectors like housebuilders and estate agents count the cost of lockdown they have seen a significant divergence in share price performance. There are a number of factors behind these disparities. A look at the...