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How to turn £2,000 into £5,000 with a little effort and some risk
Thursday 11 May 2023Even if we haven’t tried it, most of us are familiar with the ‘couch to 5k’ challenge, aimed at getting us off our backsides and improving our physical health and wellbeing, so can we do the same with our finances? In this article we aim to show how, with a little bit of effort and varying degrees...
Head to head: when you have two companies in the same sector, which one is better?
Thursday 04 May 2023In almost any market, crowds of competitors fight for business within their niche, but over the years and with few exceptions, a small number of businesses have come to dominate the industry. These are often names we all know, logos we see every day, and brands that have become part of everyday...
How to invest in growing demand for private healthcare and virtual doctors
Thursday 04 May 2023Are you fed up with trying to get a doctor’s appointment or a date for surgery on the NHS? You are not alone. A new study by YouGov found that one in eight Britons turned to private healthcare over the past 12 months. The trend is driven by a struggling NHS which has seen patient waiting lists...
The banking sector is in big turmoil, what comes next?
Thursday 04 May 2023For all the hoopla over the first quarter’s US tech sector results, markets don’t seem to be making much progress which suggests there is something else worrying investors. The number one suspect must be the banks, which in the space of a couple of months have been transformed from heroes into...
Why is the S&P 500 heading towards a new high despite recession fears?
Thursday 27 Apr 2023It feels as though we are at a pivotal point for stock markets as we head into the second quarter, with investors willing the indices on in the belief the interest rate cycle is nearing its end at the same time as fears of recession seem to be growing. Technology stocks have been strong with the...
Revealed: the UK market’s most hated stocks and our picks to bounce back
Thursday 27 Apr 2023This article attempts to uncover the least favoured stocks in the UK market. The idea is to identify contrarian investment ideas which have the potential for a strong rebound when sentiment improves. Betting against the crowd when they are wrong is a sure-fire way to make money in the stock market...
Why China really needs its tech sector if it is to flourish
Thursday 27 Apr 2023To take on the challenges of improving productivity, living standards and transitioning away from fossil fuels China will need a thriving tech space. Beijing seems to have walked back some of its crackdown on the sector while the likes of Alibaba (BABA:NYSE) have announced plans to break up their...
Emerging markets: US green spending, Chinese tech and a banks crisis
Thursday 27 Apr 20231. Implications of liquidity crisis in selected developed market banks. The liquidity crisis impacting selected developed market banks has unnerved emerging market investors. In our view, the risk of contagion to emerging market banks appears low given higher capital levels and tighter regulation...
Don’t hang around – 5 investment trusts that won’t stay this cheap for long
Thursday 20 Apr 2023UK investment trusts are trading at the widest discount seen since the 2007/8 financial crisis, according to recent research from Numis and Winterflood. Against a backdrop of weak investor sentiment, the sector weighted average discount widened from 2.3% at the start of 2022 to 16.4% by the end of...
How you can buy the market with less risk than the index
Thursday 20 Apr 2023While we are reminded regularly of the need to diversify our investments and not have too much exposure to one area (say the US) or one sector (say technology), most people are quite happy to buy an index ‘tracker’ fund without a second thought to how they are constructed or whether they might also...