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This week's articles 25 May 2018

All the articles published in this week's magazine in one place
May 24, 2018

FEATURES

Top 50 ETFs

Taha Lokhandwala reveals our updated selection of Top50 ETFs – ideal for use as core building blocks in all types of portfolios.

Find your ideal benchmark with ETFs

Following a dummy portfolio of ETFs makes creating a benchmark easy for all investors. James Norrington reports.

 

SEVEN DAYS

Our take on the biggest business stories of the past week

 

NEWS

Ophir Energy CEO exits

Quarto coup amid rising debt

Investor patience may be wearing thin at Astra

Inmarsat loses maritime safety monopoly

 

News Spotlight – Will miners’ austerity make way for M&A?

 

Economic Outlook – The euro’s money message, Next week’s economics

 

COMMENT

 

The Editor – M&S: Loyalty test

Mr Bearbull – The death trap

Simon Thompson – Running gains

Chris Dillow – Yield curve troubles, Yes animal spirits matter

The Trader – Emerging market spectre

Further Reading – Taking price-to-book ratio to book

 

MONEY

 

Seven psychological sins you must not commit

 

Portfolio Clinic – Address the issue of concentrated risk

 

TIPS

 

Buy National Grid for income

Buy into Huntsworth’s momentum

Keystone: the flexible future of law

Get round to Circle Property

Buy into cheap UK companies with Man GLG Undervalued Assets

 

Tips Updates

Rio Tinto

Just Group

Restaurant Group

Barclays

Allergy Therapeutics

 

FUNDS

 

Invesco Perpetual tries to unseat investment trust chairman

 

Big Theme – China access to get easier

 

IT Geek – Investment trusts are not always best

 

SHARES

 

Taking Stock – Renewables generate their own impetus

 

Stock Screen – Deep value hunting

 

Sector Focus – Video games: a market primed for expansion

 

Results

 

Royal Mail

Tharisa

Future

Euromoney

Countryside

British Land

Grainger

Investec

3i

Experian

Thomas Cook

Wincanton

Sophos

Ryanair

Entertainment One

McKay Securities

Greencore

Conygar

Topps Tiles

Pets At Home

MedicX Fund

Shaftesbury

Watkin Jones

Intermediate Capital

Renew

Homeserve

Warehouse Reit

Scapa

Schroder Reit

Big Yellow

Cranswick

First Derivatives

Halfords

UDG

Bloomsbury Publishing

Babcock

ZPG

Great Portland Estates

Severn Trent

Assura

Britvic

Dairy Crest

Stride Gaming

Marks & Spencer

easyHotel

Hollywood Bowl

 

WEEK AHEAD

 

TAKEOVERS

 

DIRECTORS DEALINGS

 

Just Eat’s Plumb deal

Nanoco boss takes profit