Today is International Women’s Day, a day where the achievements of women around the world are celebrated. It is also an occasion to look into why women don’t invest as much as men. Almost a third more men hold investment-based Isas than women, while women in their 60s have pension pots that are on average … Read more
PUNT OF THE WEEK: Security tech firm Indigovision supplies everything from body-worn cameras to security management software By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2020 AIM-listed Indigovision sells CCTV and video security systems to customers such as prisons, casinos, airports What is it? … Read more
JUPITER EMERGING AND FRONTIER INCOME: Investing in firms exposed to emerging markets and even smaller frontier markets By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 6 March 2020 What is it? This trust from Jupiter aims to provide investors with an income, by investing in companies … Read more
Women are slowly but surely making their presence known in the business world. Ahead of International Women’s Day tomorrow, the FTSE 100 welcomed its sixth female chief executive this week as Milena Mondini de Focatiis was named new boss of insurance group Admiral. On the FTSE 350, women make up nearly a third of board … Read more
While investors watched their portfolios with concern as stock markets dropped on coronavirus fears, some funds and trusts climbed significantly. Recent weeks have seen worries worldwide as the COVID-19 virus spread outside of China – and after brief bounce-back at the start of this week, shares are down heavily again yesterday and today. As has often been … Read more
It’s been a sobering week for investors. As someone who has been investing for more than 30 years, I have drawn on all my experience to sit on my hands and do very little. The Hazell family’s investments have fallen around 7.5 per cent from their peak. They could fall again, especially if the coronavirus … Read more
PUNT OF THE WEEK: AIM-listed Centralnic sells the letters that follow the ‘dot’ on website addresses By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 28 February 2020 | Updated: 09:37 GMT, 29 February 2020 Centralnic is an AIM-listed firm that sells web services and domain name suffixes What is it? Centralnic is an … Read more
One way to look past the market collapse on the coronavirus outbreak, is to limit investment horizons to those companies with simple and straightforward business models. Jubilee Metals is one such company. In recent years it has made a speciality of recovering metal from old mine waste, initially platinum and chrome, but increasingly now, other … Read more
‘The philosophy is quite straightforward; we invest into high quality businesses at attractive prices,’ says Stephen Yiu, chief investment officer of Blue Whale Capital. That superficially simple approach has paid off in spades for Yiu and the Blue Whale Growth Fund he heads, which finds itself in exalted company. Its performance since inception two-and-a-half years … Read more
Markets started off believing that the coronavirus outbreak would be brief and contained, and the ill-effects would be eased by central banks or governments. Now, dealers and analysts are seeing a torrent of company reports laying bare the damage, either in terms of reduced demand in China and Asia, which has hit drinks giant Diageo, … Read more