It would appear that market commentators and investors alike are almost in gloating mode given the very solid start for small caps and AIM so far this year. Companies like Solgold (LON:SOLG) have led the way. My pet theory regarding the stock market and its 15 year plus hiatus was that as an asset class…
The Illuminati are plotting… One of the themes I have returned to again and again over the last eighteen months has been how the priestly caste of the world’s central bankers, disproportionately drawn from the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs – a kind of mysterious, self-perpetuating, secretive elite which I (only half-jokingly) call the “Illuminati”…
The press consistently gets Plus500 (LON:PLUS)‘s rating wrong. Journos seem to think that the FCA hangs over PLUS ready quite whimsically to kill off this fraudulent concoction. What they fail to grasp is that the FCA does not care how much PLUS’s investors get ripped off since PLUS’s investors have entered the jaws of hell…
While an investor tries to maximise the expected returns of his portfolio, he always faces a formidable enemy – risk. In theory, if leverage has no limits, any level of expected return can be achieved. But risk is also expected to rise with it and make the burden of failure too great for an investor…
Ironically, Hydrodec (LON:HYC) would typically be the type of stock I would avoid charting. But the present situation on the daily chart is rather hard to resist. I have to admit that Hydrodec is not a company which I have been over familiar with, despite my almost encyclopedic knowledge of the AIM market’s more famous,…
Low interest rates have incentivised borrowing in recent years. There has been little reason for companies to reduce their debt levels. Therefore, businesses in a range of sectors have leveraged up their balance sheets in order to improve shareholder returns. This has helped to boost profits and generated higher returns for investors. However, a more…
Law in practice: I was surprised to learn that a major plc could have a memorandum and articles of association which allowed, at least on the face of it, a resolution put to shareholders of one class to be opposed simply on the basis of one vote per shareholder rather than one vote per share.…
While it may be the case that Uru Metals (LON:URU) shares are somewhat “over followed” at the moment, this doesn’t mean we don’t have decent charting material on our hands. Although many of us prefer to dodge the most heated of social media backed stocks and those where there has been a vertical move higher…
For the first time, journalists from alternative media will play an active part in the UK’s largest event for private investors. The Master Investor Show takes place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London, on Saturday 25th March. Event organisers will host a special area for independent finance bloggers to connect with thousands of private…
We all know that we should aim for a well-diversified portfolio, but that is easier said than done given the high correlations between most of the main asset classes. The tendency for different securities to move in unison is particularly acute during a sharp market sell-off, which is precisely when you need your more defensive…
