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Nice and simple portfolio: Seven ETFs are all you need
Thursday 03 Sep 2020Investing doesn’t need to be hard, complicated or even require a lot of time, and you certainly don’t need dozens of all different kinds of investments in your portfolio. In fact, seven funds could be enough. And they needn’t be active funds either. Picking the right fund and fund manager is always...
Exploring small cap stocks on single-digit multiples
Thursday 03 Sep 2020With markets and financial commentators seemingly obsessed with the notion of big companies getting bigger – Apple being a prime example, having doubled in value to a record-breaking $2 trillion just in the last two years – investors shouldn’t overlook the long-term attraction of smaller companies...
How benchmarks can help to evaluate performance and highlight risk
Thursday 03 Sep 2020Imagine setting off on a long journey to the other side of the world and not knowing how long it will take, except you want to complete it in under a year. By identifying staging posts before you set off, you will be better informed about how far along you are at given points in time. In the same...
Energy storage theme offers growth and tasty dividends
Thursday 27 Aug 2020Many investors are well versed in the attractions of renewable energy as an investment theme, and retail fund flows into green energy and environmental funds continued unabated even during the market sell-off caused by the pandemic. The move to a zero-carbon future will increase the need for energy...
5 great stocks to buy now
Thursday 27 Aug 2020Many people are prepared to pay a high price for growth in the current market. Indeed, Shares has been keen to extol the virtues of quality businesses capable of growing despite a troubled backdrop. However, we sense growing interest in the market for value opportunities and our research shows it...
When to sell a stock (and when not to sell)
Thursday 27 Aug 2020Deciding when to sell a stock challenges even the best professional investors because there are so many variables to think about. These are seven common reasons to sell: - Something has changed to the investment case since you bought the stock - The valuation has become too rich - You find a better...
Managing your pension in your 60s
Thursday 27 Aug 2020While lots of people in their 60s will either have already retired or be planning to retire soon, this is by no means a given. Brits are living longer, healthier lives than ever before and many choose to keep working – either full or part-time – well into their 60s, 70s and even 80s. Whatever your...
Emerging markets: Views from the experts
Thursday 27 Aug 2020A collapse in economic activity amid the Covid-19 pandemic and expectations of slowing loan growth, falling margins and rising bad debts have hurt near-term earnings forecasts for Brazilian financials . While the pandemic has weighed on their businesses in the short term, we see a low probability...
The South Korean emerging markets debate
Thursday 27 Aug 2020Is South Korea an emerging market or not? It depends who you ask. Index provider MSCI classes it as such but FTSE Russell excludes the country from its own emerging market indices. Writing in 2013 FTSE Russell said: ‘FTSE’s attention to the views of market practitioners was an important factor in...
Don’t get sucked into the hydrogen hype
Thursday 20 Aug 2020If you were a shareholder in a hydrogen fuel cell company a year ago, right now you could be sitting on a small fortune. For UK investors, there are three stocks directly involved in the space. Two of them, AFC Energy ( AFC:AIM ) and Ceres Power ( CWR:AIM ) , make fuel cells, and the other, ITM...