The annual investment event, hosted by UK media company, Master Investor Ltd., saw the largest audience in its 14-year history and received outstanding feedback from delegates and exhibitors. 4,500 private investors connected with 100 exhibiting global companies and a world-class line-up of speakers at the year’s premier private investor event. The Business Design Centre, Islington,…
It seems funny to think of Google as an advertising company – but that is how it makes its money. The internet business now known as Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), which is the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalisation of around £380 billion, had revenues of USD20.3 billion (£13.9 billion) in Q1 this…
Market Latin: ‘caveat emptor’ says the Governor; ‘Et tu Brute’ rejoin shocked British Brexiteers; ‘Quo Vadis?’ shout investors. Will a Brexit vote be bad for the equity market, and if so, what sectors is a Brexit vote likely to hurt? The Governor of the Bank of England’s foray into Brexit prophecy has provoked outrage…
The most popular area of the market in recent weeks has been the Targeted Absolute Return sector with £243m of net retail sales in February and £485m in March. This was in sharp contrast to the massive £682m outflow from UK All Companies funds and reflects a general air of investor caution. There are 75…
Proxama (PROX) may have sold its payments division. If so, its fund-raising challenges are solved and the market can concentrate on the proximity advertising campaigns. 1.2p might be very cheap in these circumstances. ***** Boris Johnson is a bit naughty in comparing the emergence of the EU as a form of Hitler at work. But…
Market Direction: FTSE 100 Key Support Line at 6,080 ARM (ARM): Initial April Bear Trap ARM Holdings certainly has been something of a standard bearer for the UK tech sector over recent years, especially given the issues its smaller cousin Imagination Technologies has been suffering of late. The present position on the daily chart of…
While doing research for my article in this month’s Master Investor Magazine (Small Caps in the Song of Buffett) there were some companies I had to reject, as they didn’t meet all of the investment guru’s buying criteria. To re-cap, Buffet likes companies with a wide “economic moat” – a situation which helps them to…
Over the last two posts I’ve focussed on how entering and exiting/managing trades is the part of the trade that’s most fraught with danger. I compared it to take-off and landing in an aeroplane, which is when most aircraft accidents happen. In the first part I looked at entering trades and in the second about…
…Corruption is Endemic! One thing we have learned this week: when you are making small-talk with Her Majesty about weighty issues like global corruption, it’s best not to make bland generalising assertions like: Nigeria and Afghanistan are fantastically corrupt. Much better to make the assertion at one remove by quoting a trusted third party. So:…
The last edition of Master Investor Magazine was dedicated to Warren Buffet, who is “perhaps the greatest investor who ever lived”. If anything is to be learnt from the “Sage of Omaha”, it is that investors should buy value and use the short-term market fluctuations in their favour to purchase great stocks at low prices.…
