Fair shares for all
At a recent gathering of the venerable Company of Merchant Adventurers of York, I listened to a sermon on the…
The ultra-fast broadband race
‘Telecommunications’ is not the perfect name for the transmission of data at speeds that the late Mr Alexander Graham Bell…
Gold is still the safest haven
In times as alarming as these — with Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump waving nuclear weapons at each other…
Robin Andrews picks automotive stocks for the post-Brexit era
The challenge of finding undervalued, publicly quoted enterprises with interesting prospects in the automotive sector is, as Matthew Lynn says,…
Knowing when to sell
Since getting into the business of bringing shares to your attention, it has been frustrating not to have a platform…
Who’s selling the shovels?
Our infrastructure is at breaking point. Most governments of the past hundred years have been able to raise their glasses…
Healthy finances
Any medically or technically unqualified investor who dips a toe into the pharma and healthcare sector should do so with…
Power plays
All eyes are on North Korea. Not as an investment opportunity, I hasten to say, but as a nuclear threat,…
Sell in May?
‘Sell in May and go away,’ says an old stock-market maxim. Despite mixed historical evidence, that advice is worth pondering…
Look beyond today’s turmoil
Canvassing friends from a lifetime in the investment business in Europe and in North America, I’m struck by the unanimity…
To frack or not to frack
What a curious world we live in. It is now conventional wisdom that we have all embarked on a journey…
Catching falling knives
There is a curious pleasure to be had watching stocks plummet — as long as you don’t own them. It’s…
Little Oil: cash is king
The small oil and gas company sector, consisting chiefly of AIM-quoted companies, has been massacred over the past few years,…