Gold, silver and platinum: How investors are taking a shine to precious metals The number of first-time buyers in precious metals over the past three months has been running at five times the level of last year Over the past year, gold has performed the strongest, rising in sterling by 28% By Jeff Prestridge for … Read more
STOCK WATCH: Will Johnson Matthey’s investors be converted by dividend? By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:31 BST, 6 June 2020 Ten weeks is a long time in a crisis. But it’s how long shareholders of Johnson Matthey have had to wait since the … Read more
Investors in HSBC face backlash over bank’s controversial decision to back China on Hong Kong laws By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 5 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 5 June 2020 HSBC investors are under fire for their silence over the bank’s decision to back controversial laws imposed by China … Read more
Woodford Equity Income Fund’s administrator threatened with legal action as investors face further losses By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 5 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 5 June 2020 The reputation of the firm overseeing Neil Woodford’s failed fund took another battering as investors faced further losses and threatened it … Read more
Struggling Wellington boot-maker Hunter gets a £16.5m leg-up from its investors By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:30 BST, 2 June 2020 | Updated: 23:22 BST, 2 June 2020 Welly wearer: Kate Moss at Glastonbury The struggling company behind Hunter Wellington boots has raised a £16.5million cash injection from a Goldman Sachs fund … Read more
On this day last year, hundreds of thousands of investors who had entrusted their life savings to revered fund manager Neil Woodford discovered their money was trapped. The popular Woodford Equity Income fund was frozen following a flood of withdrawal requests amid concerns about its performance. This left ordinary savers barred from accessing their money … Read more
The hopes of investors still stuck in disgraced manager Neil Woodford’s Equity Income fund of getting the rest of their money back anytime soon are at a low. A year after the fund was frozen, while two payments worth £2.3billion have been made to investors since the fund’s suspension last year, there is still some … Read more
Investors have demanded to know how failed mini-bond firm Basset & Gold’s potentially misleading adverts slipped the net, despite rules meaning they should have been checked. After the West Ham shirt sleeve sponsor became the latest mini-bond firm to go bust and lose 1,800 ordinary investors £36million, there is pressure on financial authorities to unpick … Read more
Dealmaking appears to be returning to the property sector as investors look to bag a bargain during the market slump. Shares in shopping centre owner British Land climbed 2.5 per cent, or 10.1p, to 407.3p after Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management snapped up a 7.3 per cent stake. Traders also welcomed the news that … Read more
After year and a half of making headlines for wrong reasons, investors praying Aston Martin has turned over a new leaf By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 After a year and a half of making headlines for the wrong reasons, investors … Read more