Neil Collins

Friday, 19 July, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Reckitt still has much to answer over DoJ indictment

Company’s efforts to put prosecution behind it an example of rotten corporate practice

Friday, 12 July, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

CYBG’s pay review set to shut out ordinary investors

Fund managers in line to be consulted benefit from big remuneration packages themselves

Friday, 5 July, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

UK challenger banks descend from hype to reality

Taking on the big lenders is proving much more difficult than investors assumed

Friday, 28 June, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

British stocks defy the gloomy headlines

FTSE is only 9% short of its peak and has made a strong recovery since December’s woes

Friday, 21 June, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Woodford saga the latest to show FCA in a poor light

Other scandals have also demonstrated that the regulator is not up to the task

Friday, 14 June, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Woodford affair has exposed the funds liquidity illusion

Woes compounded by difficulty of establishing value of underlying investments

Friday, 7 June, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

While Royal Dutch Shell gives, the UK takes away

Zero emissions target would cost £1tn, forcing cuts in health and education spending

Friday, 31 May, 2019

Inside LondonUK companies

Aviva’s confused plan will show that breaking up is hard to do

New boss signals a total strategic reversal but the insurer has deeper problems

Friday, 24 May, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Imagination of remuneration consultants knows no bounds

In theory, shareholders can vote down remuneration reports. In practice, it is almost unknown

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Friday, 17 May, 2019

Inside LondonHS2

UK infrastructure needs more action and fewer promises

We seem incapable of choosing big projects that offer value for money

Friday, 10 May, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Metro Bank lacks market nous to challenge big lenders

Strategy of opening branches while everyone else is closing them is not working

Friday, 3 May, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Big financial players reap rewards of Sainsbury’s failure

Power has shifted from the users of the capital markets to those providing the capital

Friday, 26 April, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Schroders’ family ties will help it retain a long view

Leonie Schroder is the fifth generation since the company was founded in 1804

Saturday, 13 April, 2019

Inside LondonInvestments

Diversification trumps returning capital to investors

Ambitious chiefs put their own interests first as Apple’s pivot into entertainment shows

Friday, 5 April, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Babcock can still find its way out of deep water

UK’s Ministry of Defence still engaged in its usual fantasy financing

Friday, 29 March, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Amigo’s sliding share price shows pitfalls of ‘guarantees’

This week’s low of 145p reflects market’s worry of what tougher times can bring

Friday, 22 March, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

GAM’s decline stands as a cautionary tale on liquidity

Holdings in illiquid bonds made things even worse for the Swiss-based fund manager

Friday, 8 March, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Vodafone borrowing from Peter to pay Paul

Mandatory convertible bond has more bells and whistles than a one-man band

Saturday, 2 March, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Ill-timed gong for Metro ignores bank’s challenges

Upstart’s capability in doubt as lender seeks to plug capital hole

Friday, 22 February, 2019

Inside LondonJ Sainsbury PLC

Let’s stop the teeth-gnashing over doomed Sainsbury’s deal

The UK supermarket chain is well-placed to start fixing its problems

Friday, 15 February, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Plus500 discovers betting clampdown will hurt after all

After a series of cheerful trading updates, the penny has finally dropped

Friday, 8 February, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

UK should follow Europe’s example and bar retail merger

Proposed Sainsbury’s-Asda plan an opportunity for the CMA’s chairman to show his teeth

Friday, 1 February, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Why UK plc lives in dividend fantasy land

Vodafone the latest example of a company whose payouts look unsustainable

Friday, 25 January, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Case for abandoning nuclear energy never more powerful

Grim truth is that these huge projects are a financial dead end

Friday, 18 January, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Apocalypse now talk has drowned out Brexit opportunities

Calmer minds will be looking beyond March 29 and seeing bargains in British businesses

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