MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Homeserve Home repairs will help fix your portfolio By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 Richard Harpin founded Homeserve in 1993 when he was just 28 years old. This month the company entered the FTSE 100 index of … Read more
Seldom has optimism been such a controversial state of mind. Anyone who dares to voice the hope that recovery may be possible is likely to be called delusional. Supersized problems face all economies including the UK, as yesterday’s horrendous GDP figures showed. But stock market indices are anticipatory mechanisms. And despite some wobbles this week, … Read more
Having hit a near 10-year high in February, SSE’s shares have fallen almost 30% since By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 12 June 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 12 June 2020 SSE is revealing its full-year results on Wednesday – and investors will desperately be hoping the energy group manages to … Read more
Having built a company worth almost £1.5billion, the management team of ITM Power could be forgiven for taking a few chips off the table, particularly with the shares close to an all-time high. Boss Graham Cooley, chief financial officer Andy Allen, chief technology officer Simon Bourne and executive director Rachel Smith all exercised share options this … Read more
The true cost of panic selling: Investors who bailed out when the market plunged in March lost up to ten times more than those who held their nerve By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 07:05 BST, 12 June 2020 | Updated: 07:05 BST, 12 June 2020 When a sea of red hits the … Read more
Savers can now actively buy into the battle against the coronavirus by investing in a ‘Covid-19 response bond’ via investment funds. The first social response bonds were issued in March by various institutions and public agencies as the virus spread hard and fast across the globe. Ways to invest directly in these bonds – which … Read more
A report from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank, entitled ‘Music in the Air’, forecasts net/wholesale revenues for the industry will double over the next decade to almost $47billion. Given that outlook for the industry it is hard to understand then the rather miserly valuation of One Media IP Group – one of the smaller … Read more
Britain’s investors poured £4.1billion back into investment funds in April after a torrid March saw them pull money out in the coronavirus crash. Investment Association figures showed that a quarter of April’s uptick was thanks to a significant flow of money into responsible investing funds – a theme that has been under the spotlight in … Read more
ODYSSEAN INVESTMENT: The trust setting out on journey to prosperity By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, 6 June 2020 Investment trust Odyssean is just over two years into its journey, but the manager behind the fund is confident that, like Homer’s Odysseus who … Read more
With overseas holidays still mired in quarantine issues, it looks as if many families will holiday in the UK this summer. It will be a return to a bygone era when most people opted for fashionable resorts including Southport, Scarborough and Bognor Regis. A knock-on effect of this refocusing on the UK holiday resort is … Read more