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Expert Investor: Find out what earnings momentum can mean for your shares
Thursday 24 Jun 2021Recently there has been a lot of attention on the ‘growth’ versus ‘value’ debate and the thinking behind each investment style. The successful development of Covid vaccines in November 2020 sparked an apparent rotation out of more expensive stocks which are growing their earnings rapidly and...
Investors are being asked for money. What’s a placing, rights issue and open offer?
Thursday 17 Jun 2021When a company is looking to raise cash to fund an acquisition, build a new project or pay down debt for example, there are several avenues they can take. Sometimes they will issue bonds, which is a type of loan between a company and an investor. This can be appealing because a company can get...
How sectors can help with fund and trust selection
Thursday 10 Jun 2021For novice investors, selecting the right fund or investment trust from the thousands available to suit your target returns and risk tolerance is not easy. To help you decide industry trade bodies the Investment Association (IA) and the Association of Investment Companies ( AIC ) provide a menu to...
How to buy foreign shares and the key details you need
Thursday 03 Jun 2021Many investors only look at the UK stock market for opportunities, but in doing so they would be missing out from a much bigger pool of interesting companies listed on overseas markets. Some of the world’s leading companies trade on stock markets outside of the UK, including retail giant Amazon,...
Expert Investor: Why you should look at free cash flow when assessing stocks
Thursday 27 May 2021It’s often said that profits are an opinion, only cash is fact. Plenty of businesses that have appeared healthy on standard accounting measures have ended up failing due to a lack of cash flow, as documented by Terry Smith three decades ago in his book Accounting For Growth and more recently by Tim...
What are dividends and why do they matter?
Thursday 13 May 2021When you buy a share in a company you are literally buying a share in its future earnings. As an ordinary shareholder, you are entitled to vote at the company’s annual general meeting and any extraordinary meetings that are called, to buy more shares when the company has a pre-emptive rights issue...
The stocks and indices that matter in Japan
Thursday 27 Feb 2020This is the fourth of a multi part series on global indices. Part one covered the UK’s FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, part two included the S&P 500 and Nasdaq in the US and part three looked at the Euro Stoxx 50 and DAX 30 indices in Europe. Tokyo’s stock exchange has origins dating back to 1878 making...
The stocks and indices which matter when investing in Europe
Thursday 20 Feb 2020This is the third of a multi part series. Part one covered the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. Part two covered the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indices. For investors looking to invest directly in European markets, the Euro Stoxx 50 is the leading index of blue-chip stocks from across the Eurozone,...
Stocks and sectors that move the S&P 500 and NASDAQ
Thursday 13 Feb 2020When people talk about US stock markets they are usually referring to the Standard and Poors (S&P 500) index. One reason why it’s so popular is that it represents around 80% of the whole US stock market. S&P 500 Over $10tn of assets are benchmarked to the index including $3.4tn of indexed...
The stocks that move the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indices
Thursday 06 Feb 2020If you have ever wondered about what purpose stock market indices serve, how they work or just wanted to know how they relate to investing, we have the answers. Over the coming weeks we will cover all the main global indices, starting with the most recognised UK market benchmarks. We will discuss...