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UK investment opportunities for a decisive decade

From Brexit to 2030 via climate change and a global pandemic; the 2020s are shaping up to be an eventful decade for the UK economy.

Join Citywire and J.P. Morgan Asset Management to make sense of what might happen.

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Mercantile capitalises on recovery stories

Mercantile capitalises on recovery stories

Structural growth stories form the bedrock of Mercantile, the mid- and small-cap investment trust. Changes made to the portfolio since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic also make it well placed...

Mercantile cherry-picks high growth IPOs

Mercantile cherry-picks high growth IPOs

High growth businesses are taking the UK stock market by storm in a flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) that promise to rejuvenate its staid image. They are providing rich pickings for mid and small-cap investment trust Mercantile. Having participated in just...

The long and short of it: Review of the markets in June

The long and short of it: Review of the markets in June

We, like most of the UK it seems, recently moved house. We only had one sofa in our old flat, a pre-child purchase… in midnight blue velvet. Needless to say, it is covered in milk, yogurt and general baby/toddler related mess, so we’ve decided to treat ourselves to a...

Guide to the Markets Q3 2021 Webconference

Guide to the Markets Q3 2021 Webconference

Guide to the Markets Q3 Webconference | Tuesday 8 July at 3PM   Join Karen Ward and Mike Bell, Global Market Strategists as they use charts from the new Guide to the Markets to discuss the key near-term themes including...

Value and growth winners from the recovery

Value and growth winners from the recovery

Which UK sectors and companies are poised to do well amid economic recovery? Citywire asked several wealth managers and advisers to name their top value and growth destinations. Five years after the Brexit vote in June 2016, the UK finally seems to be emerging from...

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Size matters

Size matters

Despite the euphoria around the Brexit deal at the end of 2020 and start of the vaccine rollout, the renewed lockdowns in the UK, new virus strains and the astonishing Gamestop/Reddit saga has led the market to become rather directionless in recent weeks with share...

FTSE hits 10-month high as it smashes through 6,800

FTSE hits 10-month high as it smashes through 6,800

The FTSE 100 has hit a 10-month high after soaring through the 6,800 barrier for the first time since the Covid-19 crash as investors cheered the Democratic win in the Georgia Senate election. By 3.30pm the main London index jumped 229 points, or 3.2%, to 6,842 as it...

Newcastle IFA launches online academy for trainee advisers

Newcastle IFA launches online academy for trainee advisers

Newcastle-based IFA Lowes Financial Management has launched an online academy for trainee advisers taking the Chartered Insurance Institute’s (CII) level 4 diploma in regulated financial planning. The academy offers 12-week courses for each of the R0...

Baillie Gifford adds manager to top £2.3bn European fund

Baillie Gifford adds manager to top £2.3bn European fund

Baillie Gifford has named Josie Bentley as a co-manager on its £2.3bn European fund. She joins as the fourth manager on the fund, alongside the triple AAA-rated duo of Stephen Paice and Moritz Sitte, as well as Chris Davies. Bentley...

Ruffer nets £320m+ profit in two month bitcoin trade

Ruffer nets £320m+ profit in two month bitcoin trade

Ruffer has bagged a profit of up to £693m from bitcoin, less than two months after buying into the cryptocurrency in November. Bitcoin’s stunning bull run has continued through the end of 2020 into the start of this year as its surged beyond $34,000 for the first time...

FTSE jumps 1.7% on first trading day of 2021

FTSE jumps 1.7% on first trading day of 2021

The FTSE 100 surged 3.1%, before paring back from highs to close 1.7% up, as it started its first trading session of 2021 buoyed by vaccine roll-out news and an oil price jump that lifted miners. The main index leaped 200 points before subsiding to a 111 point...