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This week's articles 13 March 2020

All the articles in this week's magazine in one place
March 12, 2020

FEATURES

Surviving the sell off

Phil Oakley explains how investors should respond to the Covid-19 crisis

 

Investment trust portfolio – An inconvenient truth

John Baron examines the implications for investors of important research highlighting the composition of market returns

 

Private Investor’s Diary – Keeping up in virus-stricken markets

John Rosier explains his strategy for managing his portfolio through the current volatile conditions

 

SEVEN DAYS

Our take on the biggest business stories of the past week

 

NEWS

Will UK banks catch the coronavirus?

No relief for recruiters in 2020

Tesco to reward shareholders and boost pension in Asia exit

 

News Spotlight – Oil stocks punished on Saudi/Russia impasse

 

Budget 2020 - Chancellor reverse austerity

Budget 2020 – Tapered pension and Jisa allowances to increase

Budget 2020 – Chancellor turns on infrastructure spending taps

Budget 2020 – Overseas house buyers face 2% tax hike

Budget 2020 – Green shoots amid billions spent on roads

 

Economic Outlook – The limits of monetary policy

 

News Feature – How to invest in the Northern Powerhouse

 

COMMENT

 

The Editor – A moment of clarity

Simon Thompson – Diagnosing winners

Chris Dillow – Beliefs about beliefs, A case for cash

Mr Bearbull – Just sit quietly

Michael Taylor – Greggs offers traders two bites of the pasty

 

MONEY

 

Portfolio Clinic – What is the best way to cover the cost of my new house?

 

TIPS

 

Tap into Experian’s big-data growth

Oxford Metrics and the ‘augmented age’

Anglo Pacific’s low-panic portfolio

Defend returns with Chemring

Diversify and mitigate downside with Troy Trojan

 

Tips Updates

Lookers

Forterra

Capital & Regional

Frontier Developments

Learning Technologies

 

FUNDS

 

Fund sales boom but Covid-19 panic could dent further flows

 

Big Theme – Absolute return funds: useful in a sell off?

 

SHARES

 

Taking Stock – Hold your nerve amid the carnage

 

Stock Screens – Eight battered Cornerstone Growth bargains

 

Results

 

Melrose

Vivo Energy

Elementis

Polymetal

Devro

GoCo

Keller

Ibstock

Aviva

Schroders

Spire Healthcare

Kier

Premier Oil

CLS

Admiral

GVC

Headlam

ITV

TT Electronics

Spirent

Domino’s Pizza

Tyman

Capita

Phoenix

Network International

Clarkson

Ultra Electronics

John Menzies

Close Brothers

M&G

Standard Life Aberdeen

Prudential

Team17

Informa

DFS

Diversified Gas & Oil

TP ICAP

G4S

Dignity

Balfour Beatty

Abcam

Spirax-Sarco

Wood Group

Cairn Energy

Midwich

 

WEEK AHEAD

 

TAKEOVERS

 

DIRECTORS DEALINGS

IAG directors buy on coronavirus crash

LSE insider joins sell off