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Investors: what to expect in 2022
Thursday 16 Dec 2021A year ago Shares said it was feeling more optimistic about the year ahead. Despite inflationary pressures, stock markets overall have delivered good rewards for investors in 2021 and Covid vaccines have helped to restore some sense of normality. As we move into 2022, the outlook is still upbeat...
2021: record year for IPOs but which ones were the best or worst performers?
Thursday 16 Dec 2021It has been a busy year for IPOs (initial public offerings) in the UK with over 110 companies coming to the stock market, raising over £14 billion according to the London Stock Exchange, far outstripping the £9.3 billion raised last year. This follows similar trends seen in international markets,...
Fantasy M&A: could these deals happen or are they a step too far?
Thursday 16 Dec 2021This year will be the biggest ever for global M&A, with records smashed across categories, according to data from Refinitiv. The number of takeovers may have fallen off a cliff in the initial stages of the pandemic bit, yet the bounce-back has more than compensated. The third quarter of 2021...
Fund managers pick their top stocks for 2022
Thursday 16 Dec 2021In the first of a two-part series Shares talks to a range of fund managers about the stocks they like for 2022. Covering both UK and overseas markets, the experts offer a range of ideas spanning technology and banking to leisure and automotive sectors. The second part of the series (to be published...
How loss aversion can trip up investors
Thursday 09 Dec 2021Behavioural scientists have long known that investors’ biggest obstacle to achieving success is likely to be themselves. Science has shown that people are predictably irrational, especially when it comes to making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, in other words, when making investment...
Stock markets in 2021: how have they performed?
Thursday 09 Dec 2021Rotation has been a hallmark of 2021 with the early part of the year seeing growth shunned for value, before whipsawing back again as the year progressed. As the Omicron strain keeps Covid-19 very much in the headlines it looks like volatility will remain elevated in global stock markets as we...
Investment firms lead in our latest earnings revisions screen
Thursday 09 Dec 2021Our latest review of the best and worst earnings revisions across the FTSE 350 throws up a few surprises in terms of sectors and individual stocks, particularly in the light of their relative performance. There are three distinct clusters of winners, split between investment, real estate and...
Superstar small cap funds: How they pick winning stocks
Thursday 09 Dec 2021Among the best kept investment secrets is the fact smaller companies typically outperform larger companies over the medium and long term thanks to characteristics ranging from innovation and faster organic growth to entrepreneurial management, agility in the face of change and the greater...
Where next for Johnson Matthey after battery failure?
Thursday 02 Dec 2021Shares in chemicals company Johnson Matthey ( JMAT ) , have fallen by 24% over the last month. The company pre-empted its first half results announcement indicating that that full year earnings would be towards the lower end of expectations, and that it intended to dispose of its battery materials...
Cannabis investing: Why CBD products could hit the big time
Thursday 02 Dec 2021Like all new investment themes, medicinal cannabis – which uses cannabidiol or CBD rather than the psychoactive THC component of the cannabis sativa plant – has had its highs and lows in the early stages of its development. Over the past five years, shares in CBD companies have been through two...