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A momentous item of news last week (which arose while I was on holiday and hence the late post) was the astonishing fact that two public companies, Henkel…
Read more“Restoring Responsible Ownership” is the title of a paper published today by Chris Philp, M.P., on the topic of “Ending the Ownerless Corporation and Controlling Executive Pay”. Many…
Read moreThere were a couple of interesting articles in the FT over the weekend (27/8/2016) on the costs to investors of having someone else manage your portfolio. Data from…
Read moreI previously commented, both on this blog and in the ShareSoc Informer Newsletter, on the revised charges that Youinvest announced on the 9th August. The impact on SIPP…
Read moreThe last ShareSoc Informer Newsletter contained an article on the ease with which one can look up the past history of company directors in the new free service…
Read moreThe book Invest In the Best, written by Keith Ashworth-Lord, has recently been published. I am familiar with Keith’s work (he currently runs the Sanford DeLand UK Buffettology…
Read moreAJBell Youinvest, one of the more popular low cost retail brokers, are revising their client charges. These might mean some substantial changes for some clients because of the…
Read moreCharles Stanley, one of the larger traditional retail stockbrokers, has advised its clients that it will soon cease support of certificated trading. Those retaining paper share certificates because…
Read moreThe Bank of England has cut base rate to 0.25% today, from 0.5%, following a recommendation by the Monetary Policy Committee. In addition there will be more Quantitative…
Read moreThe Daily Telegraph led its business section with a headline “Brexit vote led to biggest fund exodus on record” this morning. It reported that the referendum result caused…
Read moreThe risks inherent in open-ended property funds have received a lot of media coverage of late – see my blog post of the 5th July which simply said…
Read moreCommercial property funds are popular with private investors as historically they have provided high dividends with relative price stability. But the announcement yesterday by Standard Life Investments that…
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