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
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Pictet has a long heritage as a family firm, and for long-term investors this should deliver generous returns By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 Pictet Group is one of the largest banks in Switzerland, focused on advising customers … 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
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Reap rewards over the long term with Ashoka India Equity Investment Trust as India leads vaccine hunt By Joanne Hart for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:31 BST, 6 June 2020 Universities, big drug groups and governments worldwide are racing to find a vaccine … Read more
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, it was pretty obvious that President Trump was not a great fan of Chinese president Xi Jinping. Covid-19 has intensified those tensions and prompted many companies across the world to question their reliance on China for supplies. But cut-price clothes and component parts have to come from somewhere so big … 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
How to get airlines flying again after the coronavirus disruption is offering a big opportunity to AIM-listed Westminster Group. Fever screening equipment at airports is one of the remedies being suggested and that plays right into the hands of the security and technology group, according to chief executive Peter Fowler. ‘It’s our business,’ he says, … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Pawnbroker Ramsdens could be set for boost after lockdown with business expected to be brisk By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 30 May 2020 Ramsdens Holdings was flying high until the coronavirus outbreak. The Middlesbrough-based pawnbroking, jewellery and foreign exchange … Read more
The lockdown may be lifting, slowly, but economic prospects remain uncertain, interest rates are likely to stay close to zero for some time and many professional investors are nervous about the future. These are difficult times – but they are good for gold. The metal is trading at over $1,700 (£1,390) per troy ounce, an … Read more
Go to the BT corporate website and the company says it uses ‘the power of communications to make a better world’. The firm’s 20 million-plus customers and 750,000-plus investors may not agree. Customers, including me, have to put up with disjointed call centre service and ineffectual engineers. Investors, again including me, have seen the shares … Read more