Equities

Are Privatisations a No-Brainer?

I wrote a blog piece recently about Royal Mail Group plc. It got me to thinking about how privatisations had…

Is Vodafone still worth dialling into?

Vodafone at 254p. Pull this one – its got bells on it and many other things as well including a…

Youth is Wasted… on the Expensive Beer and Shots

One demographic we all know about is the Baby Boomers. Many of them are well-heeled, own their houses outright, have…

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff

As seen in this month’s Master Investor Magazine Clinigen (CLIN) Clinigen supplies drugs for clinical trials, many of which compare…

Things are looking up for insurers

I recently received an email from a genealogy website called Ancestry.co.uk offering me a DNA test for just £79 (reduced…

Is it time to hang up Dixons Carphone?

After figures for year to 31st March 2015. With the share price up 12% in only four months (an implied…

Why I have bought shares in Tribal (TRB)

Tribal Group: (TRB.L, FTSE Small Cap Index, Mkt. Capitalisation £147m, 155p and 2.5% of the JIC Portfolio) During the last…

Synergy Health: a lesson in the perils of M&A fever

2015 has been a stellar year for M&A fans; seemingly every day a serious merger or acquisition is being considered,…

You Snooze, You Lose

Re-cap on last Thursday’s calls: Short Tesco (TSCO) at £ 2.17 made it as low as £2.05 within three trading…

British American Tobacco – The Future Is Lit Up

There is a smoking ban in public places in Beijing now. Not for the first time apparently. But this time…