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IC Weekender: Recharge your portfolio, Simon Thompson, Podcast & more

IC Weekender email update
January 20, 2017

Our week ended with a feature on how investors can plug into the latest innovations in battery technology through a range of companies. For discussion on this feature and the main news in this week’s magazine, listen to the Companies & Markets podcast with editor John Hughman and guests.

The second feature this week sees Theron Mohamed look at companies who suffer from corporate scandals and how investors can assess whether to stick with them or jettison them from their portfolios.

Among our comment features this week, Simon Thompson highlighted four trading plays, Chris Dillow looked at how investors can read the recent moves in the pound while Mr Bearbull updated on performance of his Income Fund in 2016 and what lessons he can learn moving forward.

In our news section this week Harriet Russell’s News Spotlight examined the perceived recovery at Marks & Spencer, Bradley Gerrard looked at the prospects for dividends to grow in the coming year and Alex Newman recorded an Extraction podcast interview with the chief executive of Kurdistan oil explorer Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Meanwhile, in this week’s sector focus Megan Boxall sought out the safest stocks on Aim.

For all the articles published in this week’s magazine, click here.