However, full results are unlikely on election night due to an expected surge in postal voting because of the pandemic. “The fact that equities are paying close attention to the election is evident in the sharp kink in the VIX futures curve around the election,” said Marion Laboure, a Deutsche […]
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Hargreaves bosses take millions in bonuses despite promising to forgo for Woodford investors
The chief executive of Britain’s largest fund shop Hargreaves Lansdown has pocketed £2.1m in bonuses despite promising not to take incentives until customers in the former Woodford Equity Income fund were able to access their cash. Hargreaves was criticised for continue to recommend the disgraced manager’s fund, via its prestigious Wealth 50 […]
Why investors are more sceptical than ever
Other businesses in the space have been accused of going beyond generating hype and instead engaged in outright lying. The Chinese government launched a fraud investigation in 2016 after it alleged that many of the country’s electric vehicle manufacturers had been producing electric cars and selling them to companies they […]
at barely 12 times earnings, risk-tolerant investors could get a bargain with Anexo
A good portion of that dip relates to investment for future growth and a larger workforce, while a lot of the company’s customers are key workers, who are keeping going. Credit volumes are recovering quickly and the number of hire vehicles on the road in August exceeded forecasts. Meanwhile, Anexo raised […]
Tax rises will be ‘acid rain on green shoots’ as investors flee overseas, warns minister
He warned: “Unlike normal, lots of investors will be thinking that the UK has had a bad Covid and it has got a pretty incompetent Government.” He added: “We live in a much more mobile world. They’ll just disappear overseas. There are all sorts of places and it is much […]
Apple’s brand is incredible but investors shouldn’t cloud their judgment
These companies seem to be reacting positively to any sort of news flow: good or bad. Investors are hoping growth will continue and that another investor in the future will pay more for the shares as there is a minimal income, or dividend, stream from either. It may also be an overreaction […]
Tens of thousands of investors miss out on booming US stock market after cashing in shares
Tens of thousands of investors who fled shares for the safety of cash in the midst of the coronavirus market crash would have been better off if they had remained invested, new research shows. Almost 32,000 American retail investors and pension savers who manage their finances with asset management giant […]
Why Tuesday’s unemployment figures will tell investors what to buy
Tuesday August 11: Derwent London, first-half results With a broad spread of tenants between the media industry, corporate head offices and retail and leisure sites, Derwent London looks a good litmus test of how the capital’s commercial property landlords are faring during the pandemic. The real estate investment trust’s largest tenants […]
Gold rush for professional investors but bull market has ‘just begun’
Investors around the world put nearly £3bn into gold at the end of July in what was the second largest weekly sales figure for funds investing in the previous metal. The figures, from Bank of America, were published as the gold price reached a record high of $2,070 (£1,555) per […]
Investors charged millions for holding wrong type of fund could win compensation
Investors have been ripped off to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds by fund managers who knowingly left their savings languishing in overpriced contracts for as long as seven years. Campaigners are calling for compensation after fund groups admitted the true scale of the scandal, moving thousands of […]