They have been described as sitting ducks: UK-listed companies that really ought to be more highly valued and are therefore ripe for being picked off by cash-rich foreign predators.
It’s bad news for the London market but for private investors, picking the right takeover target can mean a quick profit, as bidders normally have to pay well above the current share price to win control.
And the bids have started coming thick and fast with every few days seeming to
Beim britischen Fondsmanager Tellworth ist alles im Wandel. Das Unternehmen, das vor sieben Jahren von Paul Marriage und John Warren mit Unterstützung der Investmentboutique BennBridge gegründet wurde, wurde gerade vom Rivalen Premier Miton gekauft.
Im Rahmen des Deals bleiben Marriage und Warren, beide Fondsmanager, im Unternehmen, während BennBridge aussteigt. Im Laufe des Sommers wird Tellworth seine Londoner Büros räumen und in die Büros von Premier Miton im Schatten
Wenn britische Anleger an US-Aktien denken, konzentrieren sie sich meist auf die großen amerikanischen Technologieunternehmen, die auf globaler Ebene weiterhin florieren und gleichzeitig (in den meisten Fällen) attraktive Renditen für ihre Aktionäre erzielen.
Bereits in diesem Jahr sind die Aktienkurse von Amazon, Nvidia und Meta – allesamt Mitglieder der „Magnificent Seven“-Bande führender US-Aktien – in Dollar um 22, 85 bzw. 46 Prozent gestiegen.
Dennoch gibt es einige Anlageexperten,
In recent years increasing numbers of buy-to-let investors have been buying properties via a limited company, rather than in their own personal name.
Last year alone, landlords set up a record 50,004 companies to hold buy-to-let properties, according to analysis by estate agents Hamptons.
There are a total of 615,077 buy-to-lets owned in company structures in the UK, an 82 per cent increase since the end of 2016.
Limited company surge: More than two-thirds of existing buy-to-let companies were set
Ethisphere has a proprietary metric for assessing how morally correct companies are. This year, it gave an award to Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Eighteen years ago, in the wake of a series of fraudulent business scandals where major companies used accounting sleights of hand to cook their books, fool regulators, and gouge customers, people were fed up. So, the Ethisphere Institute
In January, Donald Trump laid out in stark terms what consequences await America if charges against him for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election wind up interfering with his presidential victory in 2024. “It’ll be bedlam in the country,” he told reporters after an appeals-court hearing. Just before a reporter began asking if he would rule out violence from his supporters, Trump walked away.
This would be a shocking display from a presidential candidate—except the presidential candidate was Donald Trump.
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
Once upon a time, six companies controlled the media in this country. That, it turns out, was the good old days…
Although it seems like an eternity now, it wasn’t so long ago that the traditional film and television business was thriving. The Big Six media conglomerates—General Electric, Time Warner, Sony, Disney,
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
WASHINGTON — Eight years after Paris, the oil business is bigger than ever.
Profits are soaring. Production is climbing — and marking a record year in the United States. The industry is even poised to gain from the crusade to rein in climate pollution, including the billions of dollars in incentives that U.S. President Joe Biden is offering for wind farms, battery minerals and carbon-carrying pipelines.
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
Last week’s surprise deal between China and the United States may provide a boost to the climate talks in Dubai — but the two powers remain at odds on tough questions such as how quickly to shut down coal and who should provide climate aid to developing nations.
The world’s top two drivers of climate change are also divided by a thicket of disagreements on trade,
