A year of two halves? April 23, 2019 Alex Crooke, Fund Manager of the Bankers Investment Trust, explains how the team is preparing for a different investment landscape in the second half of 2019. It’s in our nature as fund managers to continually contemplate about the future, but the level and scope of uncertainty facing investors today is almost unprecedented. What’s disappointing is [...]
Why Vodafone is still backed to hit 250p April 23, 2019 By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. Some sense a shift in the balance towards more favourable news at the start of the new financial year. Despite a fruitful start to 2019 for most FTSE 100 index stocks, the mood of many investors will have been tempered by further uncertainty over the prized dividend at Vodafone [...]
Mike Ashley among Debenhams shareholders wiped out April 18, 2019 By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. One of the most intriguing City soap operas is over for investors as lenders seize control of Debenhams. The fight for survival at Debenhams (LSE:DEB) stores goes on, but for investors the suspension of shares signalled the final act in a grim 13 years of stock market trading. The [...]
ii winter portfolios extend outperformance in March April 17, 2019 There are fewer star performers in this year's Aggressive Winter Portfolio – that was until March when no less than three of the five constituents each gained around 8%. Ignore Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli, statistics demonstrate that some stocks do far better during the winter months than others. And the stats are backed up [...]
Poker reveals high-stakes players April 16, 2019 When many of the people working in the blockchain space get together at meet-ups there are often discussions around alternate ways to bring the community together. Erica Stanford started the Crypto Curry lunches and built a strong community of people working on blockchain projects. This has now grown to other industries and cities other than [...]
Crypto users rally round WikiLeaks founder April 16, 2019 In a Crypto-themed twist to the news of the dramatic arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, cryptocurrency users rallied to donate Bitcoin (BTC) to his organisation. Currently, nearly six BTC, worth about US$30,000, have been donated. This week has seen consolidation across the cryptocurrency markets after what was possibly [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Arteïa April 16, 2019 At $63bn and counting, the international art market is certainly not insignificant. Big-brand names such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s host blockbuster sales around the world selling precious works of fine art. In 2017 it’s believed the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia paid more than $450m for Salvator Mundi, a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Although [...]
Let’s take the lead on ethical marketing April 16, 2019 When the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) hype hit fever pitch in 2017 projects were selling hopes and dreams as they if they were just around the corner, and this ‘blockchain’ thing was about to change our lives forever. It changed many people’s lives for the better, and made a lot of millionaires – but not [...]
Crypto AM Industry voices: STOs must avoid ICO path April 10, 2019 Isn’t it about time our Blockchain Crypto community policed itself? It is all too easy for pretenders to enter the arena unchallenged and start to advise naive founders, claiming that they have been in the game for many years. But when you dig deeper their CVs doesn’t support the rhetoric. A danger to themselves and [...]
Wirex market view: Bitcoin Cash is star of show April 10, 2019 Last week saw the Crypto bulls flex their muscles and push Bitcoin (BTC) through a critical resistance level to peak at $5,200 over the weekend. BTC powered through the 200-day moving average (MA) and total Market Cap stands at around $180bn at time of writing. This price surge represented a massive 25 per cent gain. Ethereum [...]