Income-seeking investors looking for real returns do not have to suffer in silence like savers stuck in bank or building society deposits paying less than the rate of inflation. Those willing to accept some degree of capital risk but who demand long-standing proof that fund managers can deliver rising income should consider five investment trusts [...]
ALEX BRUMMER: Pay series is ripping detached boardrooms
By Alex Brummer PUBLISHED: 16:02 EST, 4 May 2012 | UPDATED: 16:02 EST, 4 May 2012 Forced to go: AstraZeneca’s David Brennan has been hounded out of office Whichever approach we demeanour during it, it has been a useful few days for shareholder activism. Two absolute arch executives, David Brennan during AstraZeneca and Trinity Mirror’s [...]
Double dip recession: how much risk can investors take?
Double dip recession in Britain with fears of worse to come from euroland sent shocks through the stock market this week. Investors received another brutal reminder that the pursuit of higher rewards than bank or building society deposit returns always entails a higher degree of risk. Unfortunately, with interest rates near historic lows, many people [...]
Taiwan’s Finance Ministry to Submit Trading Tax Proposal
Enlarge image Taiwan’s Stocks Gain as Government Panel Clarifies Trading Tax Patrick Lin/AFP/Getty Images The Taiex has risen 8.4 percent this year, after a 21 percent slide in 2011, on speculation the U.S. economy will recover and Ma’s re-election as president on Jan. 14 would lead to stronger economic ties with China. The Taiex has [...]
Drought and hosepipe ban mean it’s time for investors to dip a toe in water shares
Drought conditions in the South East and East Anglia – with other areas expected to follow – will bring misery to many gardeners but could create opportunities for investors. Soaring sales of water butts are just one of the examples of how hosepipe bans, due to take effect on April 5, are changing consumer behaviour, [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland to compensate division to name investors
By James Salmon PUBLISHED: 15:48 EST, 2 Apr 2012 | UPDATED: 16:18 EST, 2 Apr 2012 Royal Bank of Scotland is anticipating to plate out £400m in dividends to a tiny organisation of shareholders as partial of a bid to lapse to a private sector. A anathema on profitable dividends – imposed when it took [...]
Why income investors can safely ignore FTSE 100 volatility
Perhaps after all the pundits’ gloomy New Year predictions it was inevitable that the FTSE 100 would come roaring out of the stocks on its first day’s trading in 2012. Rising by 2.3pc on Tuesday, it regained almost half the ground it lost in the previous 12 months during a single session. While such short-term [...]
Why 2012 will be a ‘make or break’ year for savers and investors
After a dismal decade of falling share prices and rising inflation, 2012 will be a ‘make or break’ year for millions of savers and investors. Fear has replaced greed as the dominant emotion in global stock markets and there are signs that many individual shareholders are about to ‘throw in the towel’ – or have [...]
Santa Fear replaces stock market Christmas rally as investors sell across all sectors
Santa Fear has replaced the traditional stock market Christmas rally as individual investors are now selling more shares than they buy across all sectors for the first time since the credit crisis began, according to Britain’s biggest share registrars. After adding £3.5bn to net investments in equities over the previous year and a quarter, individual [...]