magazine 23 Mar 2023

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Get all the angles on the banking crisis after SVB’s collapse and Credit Suisse’s forced union with UBS.

As higher rates hit financials stocks Shares considers the impact more broadly on the markets and what it could mean for your investment approach.

Also in the digital magazine, the impact of big Budget changes on childcare and pensions, why some fund managers look for longevity and how to manage a retirement portfolio as you enter your 70s.

Investment ideas this week include a US soft drinks outfit and a specialist distribution firm, plus beneficiaries of China’s reopening and the latest on a boardroom spat at popular investment trust Scottish Mortgage.

Who is eligible for the free hours and when the changes are being brought in

Calm has been restored for now as the debate over the impact on interest rates cranks into gear

Earnings upgrades ensued following the ventilation product maker’s excellent first half figures

Fiona McBain’s exit follows unedifying row over corporate governance and private company expertise

Electronics retailer to post full-year profit at lower end of expectations

Shares highlights potential winners as the country rolls back its Covid restrictions

Businesses often stand the test of time for a good reason

Holders of AT1 bonds sometimes known as ‘CoCos’ have been effectively wiped out

As Alphabet and Microsoft battle it out, new research highlights the longer-term impacts

Despite recent volatility you shouldn't panic and instead remain patient and diversified say experts

You should be weighed towards safer income and capital protection rather than growth

Even the professionals sometimes lose sight of the fine details

Gold producer's production miss for fourth quarter of 2022 shows operational risks remain

The cash-generative Dr Pepper producer’s qualities are so misunderstood

The distributor is seizing on a growth opportunity in the audio visual equipment market

Amid a banking crisis, assets which have soared since 2020 have come firmly back down to earth

Could the scrapping of the lifetime allowance be reversed by a future government