Boohoo investors focus on response to sweatshop slavery scandal

As Boohoo prepares to announce full-year results, investors still focused on response to sweatshop slavery scandal By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 30 April 2021 Boohoo investors have been subjected to a roller-coaster ride in the last 12 months despite booming demand for online … Read more

Will investors get a Roaring Twenties? Tom Becket on the Investing Show

Will investors profit from a Roaring Twenties stock market after Covid or face a return to low growth? Tom Becket on the INVESTING SHOW By This Is Money Published: 13:23 BST, 28 April 2021 | Updated: 13:23 BST, 28 April 2021 Investors have been backing a strong rebound from the coronavirus lockdowns – and are … Read more

Windfall for BP investors as higher oil prices send profits soaring

Windfall for BP investors as oil giant launches share buyback scheme after higher oil prices send profits soaring By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:18 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 23:38 BST, 27 April 2021 BP has pulled out all the stops to win over investors with a share buyback scheme as … Read more

More misery for Woodford investors as former flagship fund dives 29%

More misery for Woodford investors as disgraced stock picker’s former flagship fund crashes another 29% By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 26 April 2021 | Updated: 22:48 BST, 26 April 2021 Investors in the former Woodford Patient Capital Trust are still suffering as its chairman admitted performance had been ‘disappointing’ over … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Will Woodford investors see payout?

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: When will Woodford investors see a payout? Government not inclined to compensate them for the losses they have suffered By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 24 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 24 April 2021 Brazen double standards. That was the verdict last week of many Woodford Equity … Read more

Basset & Gold: 170 mini-bond investors wait for Financial Ombudsman ruling

Investors who lost millions of pounds when mini-bond firm Basset & Gold failed last April are fighting for compensation for what they feel were mis-sold investments. Some 170 bondholders who invested money between February 2017 and 2018 have complained to the Financial Ombudsman after claiming they were fobbed off by the company supposed to check-up … Read more

Australian tax office cracking down on share, Bitcoin and property investors

Why playing the share market, buying Bitcoin or selling a house could get you in trouble with the tax office – here’s how to make sure you don’t get stung Australian Taxation Office cracking down on those who profited from shares Tax agent H&R Block said Bitcoin investors were also in their audit sights  Expert … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Tobacco investors burnt by US nicotine cap plans

More than £6billion was wiped off the value of London’s two tobacco giants as investors panicked that the US could cap the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. British American Tobacco (BAT) and Imperial Brands dropped after media reports said the Biden administration was mulling rules that remove so much nicotine that smoking is no longer … Read more

Treasury to hand £120m compensation to London Capital & Finance investors

Compensation scheme: LCF situation is ‘unique and exceptional’ says the Treasury The Treasury has announced plans to hand £120million in compensation to around 8,800 mini-bond investors who lost out in the collapse of London Capital & Finance. The creation of the compensation scheme – which will require legislation – is due to the ‘unique and exceptional nature … Read more

Treasury to hand £120m compensation to London Capital & Finance investors

Compensation scheme: LCF situation is ‘unique and exceptional’ says the Treasury The Treasury has announced plans to hand £120million in compensation to around 8,800 mini-bond investors who lost out in the collapse of London Capital & Finance. The creation of the compensation scheme – which will require legislation – is due to the ‘unique and exceptional nature … Read more