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Bear Bull
Mr Bearbull's column has appeared since the 1950s, and aims to help readers manage portfolios. The current Mr Bearbull is a former fund management professional with four decades of experience in the City
Recent articles
The Templeton way
COLUMNIST: Sir John Templeton, one of the greatest asset managers and stock pickers of the century, is dead. Long live his investment methods, says a humbled Mr Bearbull
15 July 2008
Toasters are toast
COLUMNIST: Mr Bearbull explains what makes some companies special, while so many are condemned to the investing equivalent of churning out toasters
01 July 2008
Easy pickings
BEARBULL: Sometimes, our preoccupation with big winners leads us to ignore smaller, but less risky, investment opportunities. Our columnist identifies two such potential situations
24 June 2008
Slough of despond
COLUMNIST: Mr Bearbull suggests the valuation yardstick to check when stock markets are despondent
17 June 2008
Style counsel
BEARBULL: Our leading columnist mulls the virtues of three companies that cater for the inevitability of decrepitude and death
03 June 2008
The third certainty
Mr Bearbull wonders how to make money from the inevitability of old age - and finds two shares that might fit the bill
20 May 2008
This ole house
COLUMNIST: A country classic tells us something about UK housebuilders' shares, says Mr Bearbull
29 April 2008
Your opinion
How safe is my money (2)
READER QUESTIONS: If money is held in an offshore account, does it have the same protection as it would onshore?
- 13 May 2008
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Bargain Shares
Simon Thompson picks six stocks with good prospects, huge asset backing, and bombed-out share prices!
Find out which they are, and track their share price performance, here
How safe is my money (1)
READER QUESTIONS: Are Isas covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme?