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This week's articles 5 February 2016

All the articles published in this week's magazine in one place
February 5, 2016

FEATURES

Bargain Shares 2016

Simon Thompson presents his 2016 Bargain Shares portfolio, based on the stock picking logic of guru Benjamin Graham

How the 2015 Bargain Share portfolio performed

Rise of the Uber discount broker

Buying shares is becoming a whole lot cheaper thanks to the advent of tech-savvy new players, but is it too good to be true? Emma Agyemang investigates

Reducing risk over time

John Baron explains his approach to portfolio diversification

SEVEN DAYS

Our take on the biggest business stories of the past week

NEWS

Wood Mackenzie casts a pall over UKCS

Defence contracts under fire

New challenges at M&G

Lakehouse hit by budgetary constraints

Rating hiccup fails to dent CYBG float

News Spotlight – Alphabet breaks out its ‘moonshots’ for the first time

Economic Outlook – Uses of the output gap, Next week’s economics

COMMENT

The Editor – Reasons to be cheerful

Chris Dillow – Negative rate dangers, Reasonable volatility, Oil hopes

Mr Bearbull – Growth dilemma

The Trader – Shipping forecast

Chronic Investor – Can Optibiotix keep up its momentum?

Chronic Investor - Pascal’s – and Gubay’s – wager

YOUR MONEY

Strategies for the pension lifetime allowance

Portfolio Clinic – Investing in growth to buy a home

TIPS

Time to revisit MicroFocus

M&B competition squeeze

CRH leveraged for growth

Faroe – a North Sea survival play

Take Acorn Income’s profits but stick with its managers

Tips Updates

Sainsbury

Lloyds Banking

Michelmersh Brick

Syngenta

Tritax Big Box Reit

FUNDS

Smaller companies drive UK income returns

Big Theme – Do low volatility funds really work?

SHARES

Taking Stock – Some high rises for your cottage industry

Stock Screens – 3 buys for sustainable dividend growth

Sector Focus – The Doctor is sick – but iron ore is worse

Results

Sky

Purplebricks

Ebiquity

RM

Wynnstay

Renishaw

Diageo

Rank Group

BP

NWF

Ocado

Conviviality Retail

Mattioli Woods

St Modwen

Low & Bonar

Alumasc

Hargreaves Lansdown

GlaxoSmithKline

Benchmark

WEEK AHEAD

DIRECTORS DEALINGS

Asos founder sells down

Mason commits to Halfords