POLAR CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY: Trust offers a way to invest in web giants like Microsoft, Apple and Google By Anne Ashworth For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 8 May 2020 | Updated: 09:27 BST, 9 May 2020 WHAT IS IT? The trust was ahead of its time in 1996 when it launched, focusing on … Read more
Nick Train, Finsbury Growth & Income trust manager, has been round the block a few times in a 39-year investing career ‘We know enough to know that we don’t know.’ Anyone tempted to try to predict the stock market’s next move in the coronavirus crisis would do well to heed those words from Finsbury Growth … Read more
FTSE 100 opens nearly 0.5% up as it climbs 28 points to 5,882 as investors welcome easing of lockdown and Chinese exports rise quicker than expected FTSE 100 of Britain’s biggest firms rose by 28 points or 0.47% to 5,882 today Investors welcome plans to ease rules imposed under lockdown from Monday Analysts also react … Read more
Ocado rocked by fat cat pay backlash: 30 per cent of investors shun £58m deal for online grocer’s boss Tim Steiner By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 6 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 6 May 2020 Shareholders gave Ocado a bloody nose in a revolt against boardroom excess after chief … Read more
The UK stock market may be back in ‘bull’ rather than ‘bear’ territory, but I say pull the other one. This is more ‘cock and bull’ than bull, and will bring little comfort to the army of investors who rely on shares to provide them with an income. For these income-seekers, many dependent upon a … Read more
Now investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut with ‘pain to be shared by management’ By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:11 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 23:14 BST, 21 April 2020 Top investors are calling on Royal Mail to slash fat cat pay after it … Read more
Shell investors urged to vote down pay deal: Environmental campaigners slam executive pay scheme By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 20 April 2020 Shell investors should vote against its pay policy at the annual meeting next month, an environmental campaign group has urged. The … Read more
Woodford investors face a further agonising 10-day wait for what’s left of their savings as ruined fund delays payouts The first payouts are now due to start on 30 January Investors will be told the amount they will get around 28 January 2020 The equity income fund has lost 15% since investors were locked in … Read more
Damage to Woodford investors will be revealed in January: Payouts will start with 56% of the stricken fund sold and £1.65bn raised so far Hundreds of thousands of investors face losses following collapse of the fund They will be told what they are to receive in their first payout on January 13 These will start … Read more
It is a canard of investing wisdom that short term stock market gyrations should not really matter. If you have invested for the long term in a way that suits your objectives and attitude to risk, just sit tight. But what is short term and long term? Five years has always been the standard stipulation … Read more