As a great fan of spaghetti westerns, with Clint Eastwood on screen, Sergio Leone behind the camera and Ennio Morricone providing the music score, this column is…

Moreover, a range of stocks continue to trade on very modest valuations. Industries that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, or which have not been obvious…

Few market events are as potentially lucrative as the flotation of a promising new company – especially on the first day, when a stampede of new investors…

He said this revision to the trust’s strategy should support its objective of providing investors with an attractive level of income and the potential for capital and…

The pandemic has done the shares no favours and they stand 36pc below where we tipped them in August 2018 and no higher than in December 2012….

For a company whose market value is more than £10bn that does not really move the dial and is almost neither here nor there from the point…

Britain’s highest dividend payers will be “sin stocks” in 2022, in a blow for green, income-seeking investors.  The highest yielding stocks for 2022 will be miners Evraz,…

Chris Boxall, of Fundamental, said despite the disappointing figures, investors have made decent returns from some risky companies. He said: “It’s noticeable that all the top performers…

“The potential for the technology sector is huge. It continues to reshape established industries and in many cases it is a ‘winner takes all’ scenario, resulting in…

Since our original tip, Bellway has further strengthened its market position. For example, in its latest financial year the company increased the size of its owned and…

“It’s a very clever way for him to cash in some of his holding, while offloading the decision to his fans,” he said. “But selling is a…

Covid-19 has been a disaster for the travel industry. Demand for flights, cruises and hotels has plummeted because of lockdowns and travel restrictions. It is impossible to…

As the year winds down and “out of office” emails ping between inboxes, a quiet December usually means that stocks drift upwards. Fund managers looking to top…

“So many tech investors get it wrong. They fixate on sales growth and forget that a business that makes no profits is worthless.” So says William de…

AstraZeneca The best healthcare companies benefit from consistently growing customer demand and allow investors to own a stake in cutting-edge technologies. Simon Gibson, of wealth manager Mattioli…

It is too soon to quantify the lasting effects of the pandemic on the world economy. However, in Questor’s view, Covid-19 and the lockdowns it has prompted…

It’s true that Buffett is not, despite his enormous fame, a one-man band: he has enjoyed a 56-year partnership with Charlie Munger, who is perhaps even more…

An adventurous investor in their 80s is a rare sight – particularly one who only started investing a couple of years ago and invested everything in only…

Picking stocks based on what will happen in the next 12 months can be a humbling experience for investors, as the only true certainty is that something…

After nearly five years of holding Telecom Plus we have a paper capital gain of around 25pc, plus 268p in dividends per share that double our return,…

Chetan Sehgal, who manages the £1bn Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, has been selling Indian stocks from his fund. “It’s too expensive,” he said. “The market has…

The Bank of England’s latest inflation forecasts make for grim reading. They predict that inflation will remain above 4pc throughout the winter before peaking at around 5pc…

At first sight the announcement a week ago from Jet2, the airline, was enough to make Questor’s heart sink a little: Philip Meeson, the company’s executive chairman,…

“The work-from-home stock market surge will not return,” he said. “Most people never returned to offices in full, so there will not be a huge shift if…