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Don’t expect the gold price to keep soaring in 2020
Thursday 30 Jan 2020Cash is trash, hold gold’ was one of the prevailing sentiments from last week’s World Economic Forum. Echoed by several big money managers, billionaire investor Ray Dalio suggested investors should allocate at least 5% of their portfolios to gold and perhaps as much as 10%. For those looking to get...
Time to sell oil?
Thursday 23 Jan 2020The oil and gas industry contributes to 42% of global emissions according to global consulting firm McKinsey. It is little wonder that the sector has found itself in the crosshairs of environmental campaigners and a growing portion of the investment community is turning away from fossil fuel-based...
Vegan boom: 4 stocks with the recipe for success
Thursday 16 Jan 2020Although vegan diets have existed for thousands of years, practiced by many societies for religious and health reasons, veganism is now one of the fastest growing trends in the food industry. Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are taking part in this month’s ‘Veganuary’ challenge in a bid to...
Getting to grips with the pensions lifetime allowance
Thursday 09 Jan 2020The pensions lifetime allowance is becoming a concern for an increasing number of the UK population. Between 2010/11 and 2017/18 – the most recent data available – the number of times savers were hit with charges for exceeding the lifetime allowance increased four-fold. The total value of these...
Megatrends: How to invest in tomorrow’s world
Thursday 09 Jan 2020In the early 1980s, American telecoms giant AT&T asked consultant McKinsey to predict how many people around the world would be using mobile phones by the turn of the millennium. Noting the problems with devices at the time – too heavy, batteries that kept running out, patchy coverage and...
Why technology is not a bubble waiting to burst
Thursday 09 Jan 2020Technology fund managers are hopeful that 2020 will hammer the final nail in the coffin of the cycle of venture capital-backed ‘unicorns’ – billion dollar companies that have dominated headlines in the tech space in recent years, but largely failed to create any value for stock market investors...
Top performing funds of 2019
Thursday 19 Dec 2019With just a few trading days left to go, 2019 has been good for the markets. As we write the MSCI World index is up more than 20% since the start of January. Despite this positive backdrop there has still been considerable market volatility, making life difficult for stock pickers including fund...
What were the key themes for small caps in 2019?
Thursday 19 Dec 2019Smaller companies are often at the sharp end of positive and negative trends in the market and wider economy. A spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation can help small caps be at the forefront of change. At the same time more modest balance sheets and less diversified revenue can leave them...
Big companies with big decisions to make in 2020
Thursday 19 Dec 2019Knowing what’s on the road ahead for companies can help you make better investment decisions. It can help you form a bigger picture of the potential risks and rewards for certain stocks. With that in mind, we now look at six companies in the FTSE 350 and one of the biggest names on AIM where there...
All change: an unusual period for FTSE 100 CEOs
Thursday 19 Dec 2019More than a fifth (22) of FTSE 100 companies have either changed their chief executive this year or announced plans to do so next year. So what’s causing this turmoil at the top? ‘The FTSE 100 has not really gone anywhere for two years excluding dividends so individual CEOs have been under more...