One group had a pleasant surprise from last week’s Budget. Property companies were given an incentive to convert themselves into real estate investment trusts (Reits) and become tax-efficient property vehicles, says Ian Watson in The …
A professional investor tells MoneyWeek where he’d put his money now. This week: Mark Williams, director and fund manager of the F&C Pacific Growth Fund. I believe the recent market correction in Pacific equities is …
Newspapers agree that oil prices have hit a new high of $77 a barrel because of the latest fighting in the Middle East. This is hardly surprising, as ‘oil prices’ and ‘the Middle East’ go …
Technology stocks are suffering a bad year as hopes of a capital spending upturn fade. In the second quarter, 39 of 72 technology firms in the S&P 500 cut earnings estimates, says Jon Markman of …
Indian stockmarkets confounded expecta¬tions in their response to the train bombings of July 11: the Mumbai Stock Exchange’s benchmark Sensex index gained 3% as investors focused on Infosys Technologies’ strong earnings. But that was a …
Greece has defied the doomsayers. After the 2004 Olympics, which cost a record €7bn, it had virtually run out of money, says Helena Smith in The Observer. But two years on, the outlook has improved …
It was a chance to move to the country of his birth that prompted David Mitchinson to leave his number-one rated Japan fund at Framlington in 2004. Since moving to the Tokyo offices of JP …
Thirty two years ago this week, a coup d’etat by the Greek Cypriot military was the pretext for the Turkish army to invade Cyprus by sea and air. As the island split in two between …
More and more absolute return – or ‘target’ – funds are being offered by finance firms. The funds aim to make returns that match the base rate plus several percentage points, and the funds’ marketing …
After the last week, the world is a more unstable place. On the one hand, Israel is busy bombing Lebanon back to the 1980s, raising fears it might trigger a wider Middle East war. On …