I keep a watching brief on small London investment trust, Qatar Investment Fund. Its market cap is a relatively diminutive $94m and it’s consistently traded at a discount to NAV, currently running at around 16%. The fund is heavily focused… Continue reading →
Guest blog by Frank Buhagiar If one swallow does not make a summer, how many of the migratory birds does it take to herald the advent of good times? How about a score or more? At the last count that… Continue reading →
The vast majority of investors buy exchange-traded funds for very specific reasons, usually involving deploying money to one specific investment niche – expressed via an index. For example, if you want US stocks, buy the S&P 500. Sounds simple? The… Continue reading →
A very short observation. It might be worth looking again at the biggest peer to peer lending fund P2PGI. Its share price has slid back again and is currently at around 780p again. That price could fall again, especially as… Continue reading →
It seems to me that the single biggest divide in society at the moment is over immigration. It’s clear that immigration DID have a large role to play in the Brexit debate and there’s good evidence to suggest that… Continue reading →
Who said investing was meant to be easy. There’s a profoundly good reason why most investment sages say you should ignore the noise of markets – you simply can’t make head or tails of the conflicting signals. This is my… Continue reading →
Today brought news from ETF Stream of two exciting new ETFs about to hit the European stock markets, one in the ‘oh-so-sexy’ cryptocurrencies space, the other in the staider world of high yield credit. The hot news is that… Continue reading →
Earlier this week – Tuesday to be precise – AltFi hosted its first WealthTech summit at the City offices of Taylor Wessing. I thought it was a great success – I would say that, wouldn’t I – largely because it… Continue reading →
I’ve always had ambivalent views about ESG investing. I see nothing wrong with it as such – at best it might actually help shift the short termist nature of modern capitalism, while at worst it may stop investors putting money… Continue reading →
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