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Everything you need to know about impact investing
Thursday 10 Jan 2019A New Year is typically a time to make resolutions and beyond self-improvement many of us will be considering ways we can make a positive contribution to the world around us. The investment industry is responding to this aspiration with vehicles which look to do good with your money as well as...
Ready-made portfolios are ideal for investors wanting some help
Thursday 20 Dec 2018Investing needn’t be as difficult as you might imagine. Many ISA and SIPP (self-invested personal pension) providers now offer services to give you a head start with building a long-term investment portfolio. These include lists of their favourite funds if you’re happy to make some of your own...
Four stocks and funds to buy for children’s stockings
Thursday 20 Dec 2018Shares and funds may not be at the top of every child’s Christmas list but they could be the best gift of all if you pick the right ones. Junior ISAs can be opened for any child from birth until age 16. These allow friends and relatives to invest up to £4,128 in a tax year on behalf of the account...
Fast growing small caps for 2019
Thursday 20 Dec 2018Despite all the uncertainty created by Brexit the latest reading from the Quoted Companies Alliance/YouGov Small & Mid-Cap Sentiment index suggests most small and medium-sized companies in the UK are optimistic about 2019. Nearly three quarters of the companies surveyed expect to increase the...
Going, going, gone? Lessons for investors on why businesses fail
Thursday 20 Dec 2018Looking back over 2018, the list of UK companies which have gone bust or entered into voluntary restructuring looks like the kind of Christmas reading only Scrooge would enjoy. Although only a few of these were, or are, companies listed on a stock market, the issues behind their problems are very...
The best performing shares of 2018: quantifying the reasons behind their success
Thursday 13 Dec 2018MARKET CAP: £1BN & ABOVE OCADO +101% Shares in Ocado ( OCDO ) have doubled in value in 2018 as the company made progress with signing international contracts where it sets up large distribution centres to enable online grocery services. Building on a 2017 tie-up with France’s Groupe Casino,...
Silver is looking incredibly cheap compared to gold
Thursday 06 Dec 2018Precious metals have been widely out of favour with investors for some time, but a recent bout of stock market volatility could see them come back into fashion, particularly if the US dollar starts to weaken. The most talked about metal is gold. It typically does well at times of great uncertainty...
Passive funds on the rise – but is it time for active?
Thursday 29 Nov 2018The use of passive funds has been increasing for years, with investors drawn to their simplicity and low cost. But are they the right investment for all markets, and what happens if a market dip is on its way? Passive investments track an index or market, such as the FTSE 100 index of leading UK...
Which small cap pharma firms make a profit?
Thursday 15 Nov 2018Typically people invest in small cap biotechnology and pharmaceutical stocks in the hope they can enjoy returns of many times their initial investment as the share price reacts to the discovery of the next wonder drug. However, stories like these are actually few and far between and lots of...
Can the Government really save the high street?
Thursday 08 Nov 2018In the Budget last week Chancellor Philip Hammond announced three measures to try to revive beleaguered UK high streets. The first is the creation of a £675m Future High Streets Fund to support and finance local areas’ plans to re-invigorate their high streets and town centres making them ‘fit for...