In the first half of the current year Prudential posted continued strong growth after a solid performance last year. It is an attractive long term investment with some possible short term upside if the second half comes storming in. It is not overvalued at this stage and represents, in my opinion, a useful building block…
At a time when the S&P 500 is celebrating a six-year rally, which has seen it clock up gains of more than 180% since its 2009 low, it is understandable that investors should start to ask when this bull run will run out of steam. While economic improvement has been substantial since the financial crisis,…
Do you remember the paperless office? This was the dream that we were peddled in the early 1980s by people like Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) with the arrival of the PC. The idea was that all physical paper – the contents of our filing cabinets, lever arch files and bookshelves – would simply disappear, displaced…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. There’s a Scandinavian theory that if a war is inevitable then postponing it will simply make it all the fiercer once it comes. In other words, peace comes at a price. And one we may not think is reasonable if we could be presented with…
With Google Inc shocking everyone by announcing its newly formed umbrella overlord Alphabet Inc, it’s time to take a look at the A to Z (well sort of – it was hard!) of the new company. A is for… Alphabet Inc Effectively the new name for Google Inc. Firstly Alphabet will be created as a…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. Life here goes on in its usual magical way; a bit like Prospero’s magical Isle – as Mr. W. Shakespeare of Stratford on Avon would have put it. Things happen and you do not quite know how or sometimes why; a bit like the internet or…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. An Interview with Richard Wolanski, Finance Director of Avation. Master Investor: Good morning, Richard, and thanks for taking the time to give our readers an opportunity to get to know Avation (AVAP) better. Could you begin by giving our readers a brief overview of Avation…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. Emerging markets once lured investors with the promise of rich pickings. The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) were once sure to make us wealthy, or so Jim O’Neil, formerly chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, assured us. When they went off the boil he…
This is the third in a series of seven articles drawn from my new book, 7 Successful Stock Market Strategies. The focus of these strategies is successful long-term UK equity investment. The FTSE 250 consists of the 250 largest UK companies after the FTSE 100. While the FTSE 100 gets all the attention, the performance…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. By Rowan Chaplin Investment case for Japan Following the December 2012 re-election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the prospects for investors in Japan look far more attractive than at any time since the bursting of the Japan bubble. With the clear support of industry and…
