Assessing Value
18th July 16
Barratt Developments announced a trading update today, following on from reports in the past week from its industry peers Bovis and Persimmon, which has been carefully scrutinised for any indication ...
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Barratt Developments announced a trading update today, following on from reports in the past week from its industry peers Bovis and Persimmon, which has been carefully scrutinised for any indication ...
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According to the Markit/CIPS construction purchasing managers’ survey, in the month of June the UK construction industry experienced its weakest performance for seven years. Such forward-looki...
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Over the past two years, I had several lengthy discussions with a key official at the Department of Business Innovations & Skills (BIS), whose remit was to prepare for the dematerialisation of s...
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The last week of June 2016 is unlikely to be forgotten by investors in a hurry, as financial markets were ‘wrong footed’ by the result of the UK’s referendum vote on continue...
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Have you heard of the pension tracing service? A surprising number of people haven’t. Yet it is a useful resource to cope with one common problem created by changing jobs. These days&...
Read More24th June 16
A stockbroker’s nominee account is probably where your shares are held. It will be a pooled account if, as is usual, your shares are bundled up with those of other investors. ...
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It happened. It really happened. Out of the EU after 43 years. Cameron out. Stockmarkets lurching…well, tanking. I voted to Remain. I could have easily voted to L...
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Last week’s article looked at two strong trends – in the price of crude oil (Brent) and an AIM listed company share, Private & Commercial – and begged the question: acknowledg...
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Many of the best short term traders base their decision making on price charts, taking action when they see a stock (or commodity, or currency) move out of its normal trading band – be it to t...
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Read More27th May 16
While most that has been written in the previous twelve articles surround sound long term financial strategy, there is undoubtedly scope for more nimble active investors to add value to a long term ...
Read More26th May 16
In this article, the penultimate one of our series considering the prime types of asset available to long term savers, we turn our attention towards the potential help and advice available from prof...
Read More25th May 16
As we near the end of this series of blogs, reviewing the long term investment opportunity for retirement provision or other long term savings, the writer thought it would be useful to summarise &nda...
Read More24th May 16
Having looked at collective investment schemes last week, we now turn to look at two other investment vehicles which may have attractions in the quest to find solutions for long term savings: struct...
Read More23rd May 16
Over the course of the past two months these articles have been assessing the merits and shortcomings of various kinds of asset into which long term savers may choose to invest, from cash to bonds, ...
Read More19th May 16
In the previous article we looked at how the worth of profits can be assessed, as a means of placing a value on listed company shares. In this one, we will take a broader view of the universe of equ...
Read More18th May 16
Last week’s blog introduced the concept of taking a stake in leading businesses, by owning a portion of the ordinary share capital – as opposed to receiving a steady income from ‘l...
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We are half way through our review of the prime types of asset that private individuals, as well as non-personal bodies (such as charities and clubs), will consider for their long term savings plans....
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In this blog, written a month ago, we discussed some of the fears surrounding the forthcoming referendum and the way in which the valuation of different asset types were beginning to respond to the ...
Read More16th May 16
After looking at the merits and shortcomings of cash, bonds and property investment, we continue our look at the various asset types available for long term savers by turning our attention to another...
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