The stock market is driven by investor sentiment with share prices often trading nowhere near their true fundamental value. One way to take advantage of this is to adopt a contrarian strategy and look for out-of-favour companies with the potential to turn things around. Those who rely on this approach use various techniques to identify…
Master Investor: Andrea, it is a pleasure to have you exhibiting and presenting at the Master investor Show this year. First of all, I would like you to please introduce your company, Zenith Energy Ltd., which you have recently listed on the London Stock Exchange, and which is also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange…
Investing in a retailer with exposure to the UK economy may seem foolhardy given the prospects for UK plc. Consumer confidence is weak, Brexit talks are about to begin and inflation is now at its highest level in four years. These are hardly the conditions which are conducive for positive like-for-like sales growth or rising…
It has not exactly been an easy ride in terms of the recovery at Ascent Resources (LON:AST); but of course, that is where we get the stock market adage regarding a wall of worry. Given the share price history of Ascent Resources over much of the recent past, it may be understandable that one approaches…
According to finance theory there are three components to the total return which an investor can make from a share. Firstly, we have dividends. Often being the most modest source of equity returns, dividends can nevertheless be consistent and provide a useful source of income for investors. Those with shares in dividend paying FTSE 100…
One of the best ways of progressing in investment is going with a combination of technical and fundamental factors. Currently, at Victoria Oil & Gas (LON:VOG) it would appear that both are in alignment. Victoria Oil & Gas has been one of the star performers in the small caps space since the beginning of the…
The Isle of Man is a hub for start-up businesses and entrepreneurship, enjoying over 30 years of sustained economic growth. This strong performance has been underpinned by the increasingly diverse nature of the island’s economy, playing host to a range of successful business sectors in which we are among the best in the world. Isle…
Podcasts are now firmly in the mainstream, with more than a billion episodes downloaded globally and an estimated 75 million of us listening to podcasts every month. Here in the UK, podcasting is quickly catching up with our friends across the pond in the US, where a thriving community of personal finance and investing podcasts…
This Saturday 25th March, the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, will welcome 4,000 visitors to the UK’s largest event aimed at informing, inspiring and educating private investors. The Master Investor Show brings together private investors of all portfolio sizes to hear keynote talks from celebrity investors and gain access to new investment opportunities. Visitors…
On a day curiously void of bombastic small-cap highlights, it seems appropriate to go for a situation which has classic fundamental merit, in the form of Venture Life (LON:VLG). On the face of it (pun largely intended), Venture Life has almost everything that matters to a chartist who has just hit the half century mark.…
