Does the result of a general election affect stock markets? This is a question asked by many investors, yet the answer has almost as many nuances. As the country heads to the polls for the third time in four years, savers will be pondering the outlook for their portfolios. The …
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A general election is now less than six weeks away after Parliament agreed to take the country to the polls before Christmas. It may be being dubbed the “Brexit election” but, as the Conservative Party discovered in 2017, other issues can quickly take centre stage. Theresa May’s disastrous plans to …
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Questor Income Portfolio: the prospect of a hard-Left government rightly instils fear in investors. But what is a suitable course of action? Does a possible Corbyn government represent an existential threat to our portfolio? In theory, any business based or listed in Britain is at some risk from a hard-Left government. …
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The risk of investors’ incomes shrinking has reached new highs, as the affordability of shareholder payouts has fallen to its lowest level for a decade. One in five global companies could cut dividends, research suggests, as payouts have grown far in excess of profits every year since the financial crisis. …
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Rogue company bosses who put staff pensions at risk will be targeted “with the full force of the law”, the pensions minister has vowed. Writing for the Telegraph after the Queen’s Speech, Guy Opperman has promised chief executives who break the rules on pensions will “have nowhere to hide” as …
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Questor Income Portfolio: several of our holdings have fallen during this week’s bout of pessimism but we have no reason to fear for our income The stock market took a severe tumble on Wednesday and some of our stocks bore the brunt: Lloyds Banking Group and Legal & General both lost 3.3pc …
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Questor Income Portfolio: we have a heavy domestic bias, which is doing us no favours when it comes to share prices, although our income is holding up nicely As it is the first Friday of the month we publish today our performance table for the Income Portfolio. It tells a …
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Questor Income Portfolio: ‘Nothing has changed’ was the company’s message to shareholders this week. But there was a surprise lurking in Premier Oil’s statement It was a blow for this column when in May Royal Mail announced that it would cut its dividend for the 2019-20 financial year. It was …
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Investors have always been drawn to small companies thanks to their potential to grow far more quickly than larger, more established rivals. But for every success story there are many that fail. Smaller company fund managers make a living out of finding diamonds in the rough. This has been the …
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