Neil Collins

Friday, 20 September, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Time for a Pac-Man defence from London Stock Exchange

It is hard to argue that a combined business would be better off run from Hong Kong

Friday, 13 September, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

An alternative to ‘helicopter money’ is already here

The risk to such policies is not inflation, but politics

Friday, 6 September, 2019

Inside LondonSovereign bonds

Risk-free bonds threaten to be return-free, too

Investors should target the glaring mismatch between equity and debt pricing

Friday, 30 August, 2019

Inside LondonPayment protection insurance

We’ll miss PPI, a form of QE for the masses

Total cost to UK banks has now passed £48bn, including £12.5bn spent on admin

Friday, 23 August, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

‘Greater fool’ theory drives weird world of negative yields

Lending at a loss only makes sense if there are other buyers willing to risk bigger hits

Friday, 9 August, 2019

Inside LondonUK equities

Retail landlord Intu is overdue a reality check

Property company’s ‘transformational’ strategy looks overly optimistic in current climate

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

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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

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

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