Investing

One of the favourites indicators used by investors to spot bargains is the dividend yield. Dividends are cash paid to shareholders for their ownership of a (successful) business. When stock prices are down, it means you’re paying less to own this cash flow. A dividend yield of 10% means that you’re paying 100p to obtain an […]

The Art of Execution by Lee Freeman-Shor is a fantastic read and succinctly captures the flaws in most people’s investment strategies. And most amazingly, does it using hundreds of millions of dollars and some of the world’s best investors as guinea pigs. Richard BerryRichard is the founder of the Good Money Guide (formerly Good Broker

One of the amazing things about investing in, or raising money for, early-stage companies is that fee comparison tends to be ignored. Perhaps one reason is that unlike investing in main market stocks, where you are dividend hunting. Or, forex trading, where you are trying to take short-term profits sometimes within a matter of minutes. The

Ground Rules – Investing In any game, there are rules. Some visible; some hidden. In the trading game, most are invisible. But then most beginners don’t know that. The ‘doing’ part of trading is actually very simple. You deposit some money into a broker account, select any tradable instrument, and click “Buy”. That’s about it.

As Funding Circle becomes the latest big IPO flotation, where can you buy it and how risky could it be? Peer to peer platform, Funding Circle, has announced a £2bn IPO and floatation on the London Stock Exchange. The company plans to raise £300million in a stock market float which could net its three founders

2018 is fast becoming the year when digital investing truly took off, but are we reaching the top of a boom or is there more to come? Towards the beginning of the year, we produced this explainer piece on the rise of digital investment and how it can be used as an accessible way to

The market loves an IPO and Xiaomi’s initial public offering is one of the biggest to hit the markets this year. Xiaomi plans to IPO on the 9th June with an expected market cap of up to 70bn USD. Here are the key facts of the Xiaomi IPO: Company name: Xiaomi Ticker symbol: 01810:xhkg Exchange: Hong Kong Stock Exchange Exp.

There’s a great bit in Peter Hargreaves’ autobiography (In for a Penny) about his personal investment strategy of buying into companies he uses. In particular how shocked he was at the cost of the David Lloyd membership his wife bought him as a present he bought some shares and made a tidy profit when the clubs