When it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, every day is a school day – and that isn’t just because many parents (myself included) are having to teach our children about fronted adverbials at the same time as working from home. As we scan the news for information, we are all learning a great deal about … Read more
Holidays giant Tui considering tapping investors for hundreds of millions of pounds By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 Holidays giant Tui is considering tapping investors for hundreds of millions of pounds. A major equity fund-raise is one of the options under … Read more
When it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, every day is a school day – and that isn’t just because many parents (myself included) are having to teach our children about fronted adverbials at the same time as working from home. As we scan the news for information, we are all learning a great deal about … Read more
Woodford investors face a further agonising 10-day wait for what’s left of their savings as ruined fund delays payouts The first payouts are now due to start on 30 January Investors will be told the amount they will get around 28 January 2020 The equity income fund has lost 15% since investors were locked in … Read more
POLAR CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY: Trust offers a way to invest in web giants like Microsoft, Apple and Google By Anne Ashworth For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 8 May 2020 | Updated: 09:27 BST, 9 May 2020 WHAT IS IT? The trust was ahead of its time in 1996 when it launched, focusing on … Read more
Nick Train, Finsbury Growth & Income trust manager, has been round the block a few times in a 39-year investing career ‘We know enough to know that we don’t know.’ Anyone tempted to try to predict the stock market’s next move in the coronavirus crisis would do well to heed those words from Finsbury Growth … Read more
The UK stock market may be back in ‘bull’ rather than ‘bear’ territory, but I say pull the other one. This is more ‘cock and bull’ than bull, and will bring little comfort to the army of investors who rely on shares to provide them with an income. For these income-seekers, many dependent upon a … Read more
P&O ferries Dubai-based owner begs for £150m bailout (as it plans to give investors £270m) By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:39 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 23:39 BST, 28 April 2020 The owner of P&O Ferries is pleading with the Government for a £150million bailout – as it prepares to hand … Read more
Funding Circle opens its doors to 300,000 businesses after joining loan scheme… but closes them to personal investors who want to help It was approved for the government-backed coronavirus loan scheme on Friday But under the scheme it can’t accept money from retail investors Casual investors made up 23% of the peer-to-peer platform’s funding last … Read more
The coronavirus market panic sparked a colossal sell-off of corporate bonds last month. As well as selling shares en-masse, investors dumped company debt in terror of mass bankruptcies in the now inevitable recession – or what some worry might even be a second Great Depression. But the fear seizing corporate bond markets has started to … Read more