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Market Statistics

4 Jan 2023 Education

Year End Portfolio Review of 2022 – Roger Lawson

The views expressed in this article are those of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. As I have published in previous years, here is a review of my own stock market portfolio performance in the calendar year 2022. I’ll repeat what I said…

Economics

30 Dec 2022 Economics

Review of the Year – But It Could Have Been Worse

The views expressed in this article are those of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. Not many stock market investors will have come out ahead this…

Investment Strategies

25 Sep 2021 Investment Strategies

Dividend Yield vs Market Capitalisation

This article expresses the opinions and analysis of its author and does not necessarily reflect those of ShareSoc. The author accepts no liability for any errors in his…

Placings and IPOs

31 Oct 2020 Placings and IPOs

Continued strong fundraising activity on AIM

Allenby Capital, whose CEO Nick Naylor spoke at ShareSoc’s Investing Masterclass on Remuneration, have just issued their quarterly update which shows the way the AIM market continues to…

General News

10 May 2020 General News

How important is the Individual Shareholder to UK PLC in the current climate?

On Thursday 7 May 2020 The LSE and Primary Bid ran a webinar on How important is the Individual to UK PLC in the current climate? There was…

Blog

29 Jan 2020 Blog

Allenby Capital – AIM Market Update – Q4 2019

Allenby have posted a useful note on the state of Aim with lots of data, click here to Download note Key points: December bounce but 2019 remained a…

Blog

20 Nov 2019 Blog

PE Will Eat Itself

How private equity has devoured public markets and is now devouring itself One of the key causes of the Woodford implosion was the number of illiquid, unquoted holdings…

ShareSoc

14 Jan 2019

FCA Views of the Financial Landscape

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published a document entitled “Sector Views” giving their annual analysis of the UK financial landscape and how the financial system is working…

Education

22 Feb 2017 Education

Asset Management Market Study

I commented previously on the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study, which suggested there was weak competition in this market. Needless to say, most asset managers do not seem…

Education

18 Nov 2016 Education

FCA Study of Asset Management – Interesting Interim Results

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an interim report on its Asset Management Market Study. Some of the results are not that surprising, but others are. For…

Education

31 Oct 2016 Education

Do Active Funds Underperform? But Costs are the Real Problem

On the 24 October the Financial Times FTfm supplement led with a front page article that was headlined “99% of Active US equity funds underperform”. It also had a…

Education

20 Jun 2016 Education

Cash or Shares. Which is Better?

An interesting article in Saturday’s FTMoney (18/6/2016) by Paul Lewis suggested that you might be surprised to learn that if you had invested £10,000 in a cash account…

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