Weight Watchers lost a few pounds with name change to WW. What should it do next? March 10, 2019 WW – the slimmed-down version of the brand formerly known as Weight Watchers – has forecast a 10 per cent drop in its membership over the first quarter of 2019. The “new year, new me” attitude should be attracting new members, but WW’s new identity has failed to tempt consumers. Like a Kim Kardashian weight-loss lollipop, [...]
Klarna rival Laybuy partners with Footasylum in UK launch March 10, 2019 Klarna rival Laybuy, which offers a “buy now, pay later” service, has launched in the UK today in a partnership with shoe shop Footasylum. Online Footasylum customers will be given the option to pay using Laybuy from today, and it will be rolled out in the brand’s 70 high street stores later this year. Read [...]
Alfa Financial Software up 24 per cent and could go higher March 10, 2019 | City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor Worth only a fraction of its £1bn peak, Alfa Financial is seriously undervalued, says this pro investor. Since taking the tech sector by storm in 2017 following its near-£1 billion IPO, days like today haven’t come around too often for Alfa Financial Software (LSE:ALFA). A year ago, its shares [...]
14 shares for your ISA March 9, 2019 | City Talk By Richard Beddard from interactive investor. Richard reveals three rules, codified in his Decision Engine, that reduce the stress of trading. Every five weeks I share my Decision Engine’s ranking table, which orders the shares I follow by the scores I have given them. The scores are a measure of confidence a company will turn [...]
Diversity inside law firms is shifting from exceptional to expected March 8, 2019 Large corporate law firms are commonly perceived as conservative, exclusive clubs which only hire more of the same to maintain the monoculture. However, thankfully times change, and over the course of a generation the clubby institution of the large law firm is transforming to an extent which would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. [...]
Workplaces should be designed with mothers in mind March 8, 2019 With this year’s International Women’s Day celebrating the theme of gender balance, it serves as a stark reminder of how far we have to go to bring parity into the workplace. Women make up half of the UK’s labour force with over 74 per cent of Britain’s mums currently in work. However, accommodating new mothers [...]
Want to empower women? Fund them March 8, 2019 In the century since the first International Women’s Day was celebrated, the UK has taken great strides towards gender equality. From the right to vote to equal pay, across many fields the battle has been won. Since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, women have moved into paid employment outside the home in ways that [...]
UK assets are very compelling when looked at on a global basis March 8, 2019 | Sponsored As City AM is chatting with Mark Slater, warnings of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit are again flashing across the media headlines. The biggest news story in town is impossible to ignore as Theresa May, Donald Tusk and co make painfully incremental progress in their high-stakes discussions about Britain’s EU exit. But as the politicians flounder, Slater’s [...]
Stockwatch: A recovery play and takeover target March 8, 2019 | City Talk By Edmond Jackson from interactive investor Persistent director buying implies long-term value at this well-known firm, argues our shares analyst. Have shares in £260 million price comparison website Gocompare.com (LSE:GOCO) finally bottomed out? Four non-executive directors appear to think so, buying nearly £44,000 worth of stock at around 65p once the company was out of [...]
How climate change claimed its first corporate casualty and the lesson for income investors March 8, 2019 | City Talk The last few decades have seen the perception gain ground in markets that a combination of cash generation and state backing makes utility companies pretty much shockproof as income-yielding investments. The fate of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), which last week filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, should serve as a stark reminder no [...]
