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Neil Collins

Former financial markets commentator

Neil Collins has been writing about business, finance and economics nearly all his working life. He was City Editor of the Daily Telegraph for 19 years.

He wrote the On London column on Saturdays and sits on the boards of two investment trust companies.

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
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    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
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    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
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    ‘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
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    Retail landlord Intu is overdue a reality check

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

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
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    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
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    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
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    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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    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

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    Woodford affair has exposed the funds liquidity illusion

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

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
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    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
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    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
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    Big financial players reap rewards of Sainsbury’s failure

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

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    Schroders’ family ties will help it retain a long view

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    Diversification trumps returning capital to investors

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    Babcock can still find its way out of deep water

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    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

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    GAM’s decline stands as a cautionary tale on liquidity

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

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    Vodafone borrowing from Peter to pay Paul

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

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    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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