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What happens to bond prices if interest rates rise, and the latest Co-Op news.
Post Date: October 22, 2013
If interest rates rise, what will typically happen to bond prices? That was a question posed to 30,000 US adults according to a report in the FT today. I would hope readers of this blog know the answer because it is quite important now that QE might be tapering off and interest rates rising. Only 28% got the answer right, which is of course that bond prices will fall.
People buy bonds in the belief that they are “safer” than equities. It ...
Trusting the regulators? You should not.
Post Date: October 21, 2013
The recent case of Catalyst Investment Group highlights the fact that sensible investors should not rely on the financial regulators to warn them about dubious investments and those who promote them. Indeed so far as the FCA, and its predecessor the FSA, is concerned, the fact that a business is regulated by them does not necessarily mean they are trustworthy at all. All it means is that they have met the regulatory requirements at some point in the past.The recent outrageous ...
Royal Mail flotation – private investors losing out both ways
Post Date: October 11, 2013
Some ShareSoc members are very disappointed that they will not get any shares in the Royal Mail flotation because they subscribed for more then £10,000 worth. These are my personal comments: This seems to be discrimination against the moderately wealthy and those who just happened to have some spare cash in the bank. Either everyone should have got the same allocation of £750 of shares, or there should have been a graduated scaling back. It's just illogical.
What is being done is that ...
Share Options and Perverse Incentives (Nokia and Elop)
Post Date: September 23, 2013
Outrage about the amount Stephen Elop is getting (Euros 18.8m) for selling the mobile phone part of Nokia to Microsoft extends from the Finnish Prime Minister to the editor of the Financial Times. It is not helped by the fact that Mr Elop left Microsoft to join Nokia as CEO, and is now returning to them. Mr Elop did not manage to really revive the mobile side of Nokia while he was there, although some might say he established a base ...
Transparency and Trust – Consultation Response Submitted
Post Date: September 11, 2013
ShareSoc is submitting a response to the BIS Discussion Paper on “Transparency & Trust” which can be read here: www.sharesoc.org/Transparency_&_Trust_ShareSoc_Response.pdf . This wide ranging consultation is on a number of proposals to tackle many problems in the modern corporate scene, with a particular focus on tax avoidance and money laundering. Knowing who controls and owns companies is one of the concerns, but it also aims to tackle incompetent and fraudulent directors. A summary of the key points ShareSoc made in our ...
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