Ocado rocked by fat cat pay backlash: 30 per cent of investors shun £58m deal for online grocer’s boss Tim Steiner By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 6 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 6 May 2020 Shareholders gave Ocado a bloody nose in a revolt against boardroom excess after chief … Read more
The UK stock market may be back in ‘bull’ rather than ‘bear’ territory, but I say pull the other one. This is more ‘cock and bull’ than bull, and will bring little comfort to the army of investors who rely on shares to provide them with an income. For these income-seekers, many dependent upon a … Read more
P&O ferries Dubai-based owner begs for £150m bailout (as it plans to give investors £270m) By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:39 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 23:39 BST, 28 April 2020 The owner of P&O Ferries is pleading with the Government for a £150million bailout – as it prepares to hand … Read more
Funding Circle opens its doors to 300,000 businesses after joining loan scheme… but closes them to personal investors who want to help It was approved for the government-backed coronavirus loan scheme on Friday But under the scheme it can’t accept money from retail investors Casual investors made up 23% of the peer-to-peer platform’s funding last … Read more
The coronavirus market panic sparked a colossal sell-off of corporate bonds last month. As well as selling shares en-masse, investors dumped company debt in terror of mass bankruptcies in the now inevitable recession – or what some worry might even be a second Great Depression. But the fear seizing corporate bond markets has started to … Read more
Tech start up using magic mushroom extracts to treat clinical depression raises £64million from investors including billionaire Paypal founder Peter Thiel Compass Pathways researching psilocybin, which is found in ‘magic mushroom’ The company plans to trial a synthetic form on patients with clinical depression If it is a success and approved, Compass hope to market … Read more
Since the coronavirus lockdown, like many others, I have been listening to far more commercial radio. I prefer rock, my wife likes country – and sometimes we’ll stick on a random radio station to diversify. A common theme across all, however, is that the same formulaic adverts pop up, no matter which station you put … Read more
Now investors tell Royal Mail to tame fat cat pay after dividend was cut with ‘pain to be shared by management’ By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 23:11 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 23:14 BST, 21 April 2020 Top investors are calling on Royal Mail to slash fat cat pay after it … Read more
Shell investors urged to vote down pay deal: Environmental campaigners slam executive pay scheme By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 20 April 2020 Shell investors should vote against its pay policy at the annual meeting next month, an environmental campaign group has urged. The … Read more
It is a canard of investing wisdom that short term stock market gyrations should not really matter. If you have invested for the long term in a way that suits your objectives and attitude to risk, just sit tight. But what is short term and long term? Five years has always been the standard stipulation … Read more