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This week's articles 4 December 2020

All the articles published in this week's magazine in one place
December 4, 2020

FEATURES

Where active management works

Dave Baxter identifies the best and worst regions for stockpickers

SEVEN DAYS

Our take on the biggest business stories of the past week

 

NEWS

Is Mike Ashley the saviour of the UK high street?

Salesforce buys Slack – what next for Zoom?

Schroders UK Equity squeaks through its IPO

The trio in Shadowfall’s line of fire

 

News Feature - V-Day - why the vaccine victory could change healthcare forever

Economic Outlook – Public borrowing, private saving, Next week’s economics

 

COMMENT

The Editor – The end of the beginning

Simon Thompson – Deep value and high yield buying opportunities

Chris Dillow – On resilience, The bigger they are…

No Free Lunch – High performance paper gains

Michael Taylor – N Brown could bring plus-sized profits

 

MONEY

RIP RPI: your retirement income might be less than expected

Portfolio Clinic – How can we save enough to retire in our mid 50’s

 

TIPS

Play the housebuilder recovery with Bellway

BP looking green at the gills

Buy into private equity at a good price via Oakley Capital

Ideas Farm – If it ain’t broke

 

FUNDS

The Interview – ‘We spend a lot of our time trying to avoid value traps’

Big Theme – The best regional ESG funds

 

SHARES

Taking Stock – Was November’s value rally an anomaly?

Stock Screen – Momentum carnage

Results

Pubs fight back against Covid curbs

Sosandar: trendy but not made to last

Draper Esprit

Motorpoint

Civitas

NewRiver Reit

DiscoverIE/Gooch & Housego

Avon Rubber

Benchmark

Tekmar

Britvic

Tharisa

 

WEEK AHEAD

 

CORPORATE ACTIONS

AA investors rescued

Polymetal buys into microcap miner

 

DIRECTOR DEALINGS

Former British Land boss sells down

Compass insiders buy on weakness

 

EDUCATION

Phil Oakley - Future plc: Acquisitions add value, but some red flags are in the accounts

Lessons from history – What Google can learn from Microsoft

Further Reading: Climate change and emerging markets after Covid-19