26th October 16
Secondary offerings - What you need to know: A secondary offering occurs with the issuing of new equity for a company that is already publicly traded on a market. Secondary offerings are often ...
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A regular request from readers of this blog is for further advice on the subject of how to minimise the risks of investing in smaller companies and to provide an insight into the portfolio of U...
Read More12th October 16
Most readers will appreciate the merits of diversification – of assets or within a particular asset class – and then tend to increase exposure in certain areas according to their assessme...
Read More10th October 16
Some private investors may regret the recently announced Treasury decision not to sell any of its remaining Lloyds Banking Group shares to ‘retail’ investors (ie to ordinary individuals)....
Read More30th September 16
September proved to be a sunny month for London, both in weather and stock market terms, recording the highest temperature (34 degrees centigrade on the 13 th ) of the year and UK equities within 3% ...
Read More27th September 16
Hotel Chocolat, the innovator of the chocolate bond, which allowed customers to invest in the business in return for repayment in chocolate, recently IPO’d and all the institutions involved in ...
Read More22nd September 16
Two recent pieces of news flow from stock exchange listed companies caught the writer’s eye, as they seemed to represent critical points in each company’s development and whose share pri...
Read More13th September 16
As I write, this company in the support services sector is showing a dividend yield of 6.9%. At its 52 week high, it was 5.4%. So you might think it was in the 25 stocks I mentioned in m...
Read More5th September 16
ARM Holdings has been acquired by Japan’s Softbank Group. Do you mind? Some people do, either because they think ARM was sold cheaply, or because it’s yet another British cha...
Read More1st September 16
The summer is often a quieter time for financial markets and, after the dramatic political events of the past couple of months, August has focused on assessing domestic economic news and digesting c...
Read More31st August 16
This is an article about dividends. The generation of profit is fundamental to equity investment, even though share prices are often driven by other factors. Companies can generate profi...
Read More23rd August 16
The announcement of national, volume residential builder Persimmon ’s interim results this morning cheered the City as both the numbers and comments on the immediate outlook for new housing ...
Read More22nd August 16
In the previous article, I suggested that attending an AGM can help you decide whether to retain a share, sell, or buy more. There may be all manner of questions to ask, but my particular focus...
Read More22nd August 16
Further to last week’s article which commented on the difficulty of finding reasonable level of income from cash deposits or government bonds, UK inflation data has been published which indica...
Read More16th August 16
Since Bank (often termed base) rate was lowered from 0.5%, that has prevailed since 2009, to 0.25% on 4 August - and the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has warned that overnight i...
Read More11th August 16
After seeing the Japanese firm Softbank agreed US$32billion bid for what is probably Britain’s biggest high technology business, micro-chip designer ARM Holdings, last month investors in UK li...
Read More11th August 16
There will be more than one answer to this question, but it becomes particularly pertinent when the investment begins to look like a mistake. Some shares are bought on momentum and if that con...
Read More1st August 16
What a difference a month can make: after a wet June, much of Britain experienced a brighter July. Stormy conditions also gave way to a more stable showing in the UK equity market. The FTSE100 index...
Read More29th July 16
For shareholders, the board of directors provides a company’s management. Executive directors are there to carry out the board’s wishes. Non-executive directors (NEDs) are th...
Read More25th July 16
Further to last week’s article, ‘Assessing Value’, which looked at an apparently undervalued sector within the UK equity market, this blog considers leading constituents of a domes...
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