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This week's articles 4 May 2018

All the articles published in this week's magazine in one place
May 4, 2018

FEATURES

 

The amateur adviser

It’s not uncommon for investors to manage money for family and friends, but both sides need to consider the risks of mismanagement and abuse and how they can prevented, write Rosie Carr.

Finding the cure: autoimmune illnesses

There are currently more than 300 potential autoimmune drugs in the clinical stage of development, but do any of them hold the key to curing these ferocious illnesses?

Diversification – different this time?

John Baron questions accepted norms and explains the investment trust portfolios’ approach

SEVEN DAYS

Our take on the biggest business stories of the past week

 

NEWS

Sainsbury/Asda and Tesco – a duopoly in the making?

Aviva woos investors with compensation and buybacks

Exclusive: Polymetal looks beyond precious metals to rare earths

Apple’s record figures silence doubters

UK pharma in need of a tonic

Inmarsat rallies on results relief

Paddy Power disappoints in first quarter

Rising tide lifts Shell and BP

 

News Spotlight – UK blue chips become hot property

 

Economic Outlook – Rates damage, Next week’s economics

 

COMMENT

The Editor – In the money?

Simon Thompson – Five small caps with Character

Mr Bearbull – It Asda be done

Chris Dillow – Worrying about bonds, Against evidence-based investing

The Trader – European banking union

 

YOUR MONEY

 

Portfolio Clinic – Beware having a false sense of security

 

TIPS

Buy under-rated Moneysupermarket

Cash out o De La Rue

Dotdigital: subscribe for growth

Genel Energy: autonomous drive

Buy into well valued Marlborough European Multi-Cap

 

Tips Updates

WPP

Computacenter

ULS

National Grid

Restore

 

FUNDS

 

Nigel Thomas to quit AXA Framlington Select Opps

Does your investment trust have skin in the game

The UK is a treasure trove for value investors

 

SHARES

 

Taking Stock – Keeping abreast of the ‘churn’

 

Sector Focus – UK Banks: capital strength defies inconsistent returns

 

Results

Morses Club

N Brown

U+I

4D Pharma

Harvey Nash

Randall & Quilter

Exillon Energy

Interserve

Sage

Diversified Gas & Oil

Connect Group

Avon Rubber

Sainsbury

Phoenix Spree Deutschland

Luceco

 

TAKEOVERS

 

Abcam surprises with Horizon bid

 

DIRECTORS DEALINGS

 

Capita managers make grand gesture

Purplebricks directors cash in