| Investors Chronicle 1995 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 100-day wonder.(French finance minister is replaced) | Business | |
| 40 billion pounds sterling of life funds going begging.(spare assets of UK life insurers) | Business | |
| Abacus adds up.(performance of Abacus assessed) | Business | |
| Abbey gets aggressive.(forecasts for performance of Abbey Nationalshares) | Business | |
| Abbey National. (Abbey National Bank) | Business | |
| Abbey safe as houses. (Abbey National) | Business | |
| A better bet that it could be you.(UK premium bonds as an investment) | Business | |
| A big pill to swallow. (performance of Glaxo shares assessed) | Business | |
| ABP has it sewn up. (performance of Associated British Ports examined) | Business | |
| A breathing space: last Thursday's surprise cut in German short-term interest rates wasalmost certainly the last in this cycle. It is doubtful whether the French franc has been given morethan a temporary breathing space. | Business | |
| Absolution from gilt. (investment in government securities and cash) | Business | |
| A case for managing money GDP. | Business | |
| Accor: food for thought.(performance of Accor and sale of contract catering business) | Business | |
| A Christmas present from Germany.(German interest rate policy) | Business | |
| A cooler tone.(UK stock market examined) | Business | |
| Acquisitive DCS gets its teeth into CSI.(performance of DCS examined) | Business | |
| Added value is key to survival: survival in global custody depends on the ability of providers to meet client demands for more esoteric products and services. | Business | John Morris |
| A dull market.(performance of EW Fact examined) | Business | |
| Advertising power.(performance of SCS Satellite Communications Systems) | Business | |
| Advice for bond pep buyers. (personal equity plan) | Business | |
| Advisers' competence thrown into doubt.(UK investment advisers examined) | Business | |
| Aerostructures Hamble: crash landing.(problems facing Aerostructures Hamble) | Business | |
| AF Bulgin: green shoots.(performance of AF Bulgin assessed) | Business | |
| Affording an ageing population: the ageing European population is likely to produce many challenges for governments over the coming decades. | Business | |
| A gambler's throw.(bid for Chrysler by Kirk Kerkorian) | Business | |
| A game of two halves. (football polarising into rich and poor clubs) | Business | |
| Ageing boost.(impact of pensions saving on markets in Europe) | Business | |
| Age? it's just a number: the fearlessness of youth, or the benefit of experience. Which is morevaluable for building and running a quoted company? | Business | |
| A good place to stash your cash: the government has killed off two of its tax free savings products but there are still plenty of good homes for your money paying reasonable rates of return. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Jeannette Hartley |
| Agriculture: EU central to export growth.(Cyprus agriculture examined, includes related article on wine) | Business | |
| Agriculture.(Romanian agriculture) | Business | |
| A hybrid with the best of both worlds: neither a deposit account nor a current account, the high interest cheque account combines characteristics of both making it very useful for people who need to have easy access to their money without losing interest. | Business | Amanda Jarvis |
| Aim, set, fire (or fizzle): This month London gets its first all-new stock market for over a decade. Will it fill a much-needed equity gap, or will it be a damp squib? | Business | Andrew Hore, Peter Smith |
| AIM without fire. (Alternative Investment Market) | Business | |
| Airflow's low rating belies its potential. | Business | |
| Albert Fisher.(performance of Albert Fisher assessed) | Business | |
| Alcatel Alsthom.(performance pf Alcatel Alsthom examined) | Business | |
| A limited head for heights.(performance of UK share prices) | Business | |
| All about options. (UK executives' share options) | Business | |
| Allen's pipe dream for utility bosses.(performance of Allen assessed) | Business | |
| All hands to the Japanese pump.(attempts to tackle problems facing the Japanese economy) | Business | |
| Allied leisure strikes back. (performance of Allied Leisure assessed) | Business | |
| All packed up with nowhere to go.(performance of Tarmac assessed) | Business | |
| All that scratching makes Thorn itch. (performance of Thorn EMI examined) | Business | |
| Always look a gift horse in the mouth: investors should be aware of the pitfalls and 'tools of the trade' in analysing the attractions of split capital trusts. | Business | John Szymanowski |
| AMEC.(performance of AMEC assessed) | Business | |
| Amersham.(performance of Amersham assessed) | Business | |
| An attractive option for income seekers.(corporate bond personal equity plans and tax planning for UK investors) | Business | Victoria Nye |
| An audience with Soros.(George Soros explains his views on success) | Business | |
| And on new issues.(UK investors may find access to new issues is restricted) | Business | |
| A new age dawns for energy markets: the opening up of the energy markets to alternative providers will bring benefits for users but means a period of upheaval as the battle for domestic market share gets underway. | Business | |
| A new investment product.(open-ended investment companies) | Business | Lloyd Dyett |
| A new Pep manager for the new year. (tax and other issues to bear in mind when transferring UK personal equity plans) | Business | |
| 'An excellent base from which to export.'(prospects for Cyprus according to Glafkos Clerides, president of the Cyprus Republic) | Business | |
| An excellent offshore base.(Cyprus as an offshore base) | Business | |
| Anglian cup overflows.(performance of Anglian Water shares) | Business | |
| Anglian Water.(performance of Anglian Water assessed) | Business | |
| Annuities set to bloom in the spring.(savings tax and annuities in the UK) | Business | |
| An old myth exploded: commercial property needs inflation to perform, so the old story goes. New research shows that important differences in the hedging characteristics of property and equities mean they have complementary roles in the portfolio. (Fund Management) | Business | Colin Barber |
| An open and shut case.(planned changes in German shopping hours) | Business | |
| An option on the future.(using software to analyse option trends) | Business | Andy Webb |
| Anybody's guess.(performance of Chinese and Hong Kong stock markets) | Business | |
| Apple crumbles.(Apple Computer shares drop in value) | Business | |
| Apple's fall harvest.(performance of Apple Computer) | Business | |
| Applied Holographics: jam tomorrow. (performance of Applied Holographics) | Business | |
| A question of perspective. (latest developments in leading financial markets) | Business | |
| A question of perspective(long-term performance of equities) | Business | |
| Aran Energy: enormous potential. (performance of Aran Energy examined) | Business | |
| Aran sweating.(Aran Energy faces bid by Atlantic Richfield) | Business | |
| Arcoelectric: a good job well done. (performance of Arcoelectric) | Business | |
| A recipe for happiness using unit trusts: 'a large income is best recipe for happiness Ii every heard of,' asserted Fanny Price in Jane Austen's classic Mansfield Park. But where should investors start on the income trail. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Andy Michael |
| A recurring problem.(downward pressure on the US dollar) | Business | |
| A river runs through it.(performance of Ennemix examined) | Business | |
| Arlen: third time around. (performance of Arlen examined) | Business | |
| Asbestos claims cling to T and N. | Business | |
| Asda.(performance of Asda) | Business | |
| Asia: dollar impact.(foreign exchange instability and Asian economies) | Business | |
| Asian dynamics impress.(investing in Asian markets) | Business | Stella Yiu |
| Asprey: rich man's play thing.(bid for Asprey) | Business | |
| Assurance for nominees.(stockbrokers offer insurance to investors) | Business | |
| Astra: drug dealing.(Astra buys research facilities from Fisons) | Business | |
| A tale of two cities.(financial services industry in Edinburgh, Scotland) | Business | Tony McMahon |
| A taxing problem for dividends.(taxation and dividend payments in the UK) | Business | |
| A time of unprecendented investment.(foreign investment inPortugal) | Business | |
| Attitudes of local authorities change: a survey of local authorities has revealed that attitudes towards buy-outs are changing - a majority now say they are willing to consider such transactions. (Management buy-outs) | Business | Mike Wright, Ken Robbie |
| A useful aid to decision-making: choosing an investment software program will depend onmuch you value it as an aid to deciding when to buy and sell shares. Programs range from entrylevel to sophisticated and all come with a price to match. | Business | David Gardner |
| Australia: more productive.(Australian economy examined) | Business | |
| Avesco: stars in their eyes.(performance of Avesco) | Business | |
| A wing and a prayer.(problems facing Fokker) | Business | |
| A wooden performance: forestry has traditionally drawn private investors looking for tax breaks. | Business | |
| Axa on top down under. (Axa to take stake in National Mutual) | Business | |
| Axa.(performance of Axa assessed) | Business | |
| A-Z guide on capital gain tax on investments: tax is arcane and complicated even to the most sophisticated investor, so here is the quick legal guide to capital gains tax. | Business | Justin Appleyard |
| BA aloft on USAir talks.(likely performance of British Airways shares) | Business | |
| Babcock.(performance of Babcock) | Business | |
| Babcock risks burn-out from power overload: big and troublesome power station contracts have dogged Babcock in the past. Despite a widespread restructuring there is still too high a possibility of it happening again. | Business | |
| Backlash against Virgin hype: Richard Branson has launched his Virgin Pep claiming to offerinvestors high performance at rock-bottom cost, with charges spelt out clearly. But criticsquestion the advertising and potential of his 'better deal'. | Business | |
| Back on track.(performance of Bardon assessed) | Business | |
| Back on track. (Railtrack) | Business | |
| Back to bonds: pension fund managers' heavy reliance on equities has paid off in the past but more of them are now listening to the case for moving a greater proportion of assets into gilts. (Fund Management) | Business | Keith Wade |
| Back to nature. (performance of Borthwicks assessed) | Business | |
| Banking blues.(unit trusts sold by UK banks) | Business | |
| Banking/finance.(Romanian financial services industry) | Business | |
| Bank on it? (services of private banks) | Business | |
| Banks biased towards own funds.(UK banks tend to recommend their own funds) | Business | |
| Banner Homes: under a cloud.(performance of Banner Homes assessed) | Business | |
| Banque Nationale de Paris.(performance of Banque Nationale de Paris assessed) | Business | |
| Barclays.(performance of Barclays Bank assessed) | Business | |
| Bargain basement.(Kwik Save strategy examined) | Business | |
| Bargain hunters.(reducing share dealing costs by not buying investment advice) | Business | |
| Baring down on trust safety: just how safe are unit and investment trusts? Barings' colapse has revealed some unexpected risks - particularly for investors in offshore funds. | Business | |
| Barings collapse should not obscure other worries. (performance of UK stocks and bonds) | Business | |
| Baris: recovery punt.(performance of Baris Holdings assessed) | Business | |
| Barratt Developments.(performance of Barratt Developments assessed) | Business | |
| Base rate babel.(disagreement on UK interest rate trends) | Business | |
| Base rates: come on down.(UK economic growth and interest rates) | Business | |
| BAT after a bull year.(forecasts for the performance of BAT shares) | Business | |
| Batman's big weekend.(Warner Brothers moves ahead in motion picture industry) | Business | |
| BAT puffs away.(performance of BAT share price assessed by stockbrokers) | Business | |
| BBA.(performance of BBA assessed) | Business | |
| Bearings out of balance.(performance of Bearing Power assessed) | Business | |
| Bears to feast on Christian Salvesen.(performance of Christian Salvesen assessed) | Business | |
| Beer money: it's decision time - what share will we put in our single-company Pep? | Business | |
| Belgacom: don't call us.(Ameritech consortium acquires stake in Belgacom) | Business | |
| Bemrose: a special offer.(performance of Bemrose assessed) | Business | |
| Benchmarking: the theory of benchmarks is a subject with which most fund managers are familiar but how is it put into practice? What kinds of benchmarks are being set, are they reasonable and do they help fund managers do a better job? (Pension Fund Management). | Business | Paul Haines |
| Berisford.(performance of Berisford) | Business | |
| Bespak: a breath of fresh air.(performance of Bespak assessed) | Business | |
| Bespak.(performance of Bespak assessed) | Business | |
| Best shareholder perks lost through nominees.(problems faced by investors forced to use nominee accounts) | Business | |
| BET.(performance of BET assessed) | Business | |
| Better than bonds: don't underestimate the building society as a current home for your savings. | Business | |
| Betterwear.(performance of Betterware assessed) | Business | |
| Beware brokers' Pep income charges. (UK stockbroker charges) | Business | |
| Beware false prophecies.(changes in the UK economy) | Business | |
| Beware of trusting new risk ratings.(ratings for UK investment trust funds) | Business | |
| Beware the bond Pep bandwagon.(corporate bond personal equity plans for UK investors) | Business | |
| Beyond the Berlin wall.(central and eastern European funds) | Business | |
| Bid fever offers support for some.(forecasts for UK equities) | Business | |
| Bid focus on Zeneca.(assessment of Zeneca shares) | Business | |
| Bids on the menu. (takeover activity returns) | Business | |
| Biocompatibles heads for the heart. (performance of Biocompatibles assessed) | Business | |
| Biotrace: danger zone.(performance of Biotrace) | Business | |
| Biting the bullet. (impact of UK interest rate rise on government securities) | Business | |
| Bits and bobs worth a bob or two.(performance of Electrocomponents) | Business | |
| Blagden Industries: neat mix.(performance of Blagden Industries assessed) | Business | |
| Blast from the past.(Tiny Rowland attacks Lonrho management) | Business | |
| BMW.(performance of BMW assessed) | Business | |
| Boddington.(performance of Boddington assessed) | Business | |
| Bogged down.(investigation into selling of personal pensions in the UK) | Business | David Prosser |
| Bols Wessanen.(performance of Bols Wessanen assessed) | Business | |
| Bombed-out OMI sets its sights on recovery.(performance of OMI assessed) | Business | |
| Bond-risk bearings.(credit rating for investments in bonds) | Business | |
| Bonds: attracting foreign cash. (bonds markets examined) | Business | |
| Booker.(performance of Booker assessed) | Business | |
| Book value.(performance of Quarto assessed) | Business | |
| Bowater.(performance of Bowater assessed) | Business | |
| BPB Industries: worldwide strength. (performance of BPB Industries examined) | Business | |
| BP pauses for breath.(performance of British Petroleum shares) | Business | |
| Breaking up the bill on pensions.(UK pension and divorce legislation; includes related notes on changes) | Business | |
| Brick makers discover their feet of clay.(performance of Blockleys assessed) | Business | |
| Brighter now.(performance of UK governemnt securities) | Business | |
| Bright spots.(strong performance areas in the UK real estate industry) | Business | Anne Steadman |
| Brimex.(profile of Brimex Ltd) | Business | |
| British Airways.(performance of British Airways assessed) | Business | |
| British Gas. (performance of British Gas examined) | Business | |
| British Petroleum.(performance of British Petroleum assessed) | Business | |
| British Sky Broadcasting.(performance of British Sky Broadcasting assessed) | Business | |
| British Steel.(performance of British Steel) | Business | |
| Broadgate poser for British Land. (British Lane may purchase remainder of Broadgate) | Business | |
| Brokers cut the costs of unit trusts.(UK unit trusts reduce commission charges) | Business | |
| Brokers give forecasts a lift.(profit forecasts in the UK) | Business | |
| Brokers seek controls on high-risk investing: borrowing from a stockbroker to buy more shares carries risks - for broker and investor. As firms prepare to launch margin-trading services, their watchdog is being urged to bring more controls; but, so far, to no avail. | Business | |
| Broking a good deal.(UK stockbrokers assessed) | Business | |
| Brooks Service: cyclical play.(performance of Brooks Service examined) | Business | |
| BTP.(performance of BTP examined) | Business | |
| Budget babble focuses on dream scenario.(constraints affecting UK economic policy prior to the Nov 1995 budget) | Business | |
| Budget: better-looking bonds.(tax changes affecting savings in the UK Nov 1995 Budget) | Business | |
| Budget day blues. (securities price trends in March each year) | Business | |
| Budget snapshot.(UK Nov 1995 Budget) | Business | |
| Bud lightens up.(strategy of Anheuser Busch) | Business | |
| Building an office at home.(developments in home officetechnology) | Business | Bob Alexander |
| Building bonuses: building societies offer investors a rere chance of a one-way bet - the sort of offer our portfolios can't refuse. | Business | |
| Building materials: still tough.(UK construction materials industry) | Business | |
| Building society bets: merger (and demutalisation) mania has hig building socieites. It'salmost certainly worth having a punt on which society will be the next one to give its members afree-hand-out of cash or shares. | Business | |
| Building society blues: as thousands of Cheltenham & Gloucester savers are finding to their cost, the rules on bonuses when societies merge are complex and can be unfair. | Business | |
| Building up a reputation.(performance of Artesian Estates assessed) | Business | |
| Bullish on Wall Street. (performance of stock markets in the US in 1995) | Business | |
| Bulls roam in Abbey.(forecasts on the performance of Abbey National shares) | Business | |
| Bundesbank steps into the breach: turmoil on the currency markets has forced the Bundesbank to raise its profile once again. | Business | |
| Buoyed up.(performance of the UK stock market) | Business | |
| Business travel: global hotel power.(business travel and the strategies of hotel groups) | Business | Catherine Chetwynd |
| Buying boycott. (performance of German stock market) | Business | |
| Buying direct from the vendor: the employers, customers, buyer and vendor in a rather unconventional MBO have all walked away happy. Why was the deal so successful? (Management buy-outs) | Business | Alison Eadie |
| Caledonia Investments.(performance of Caledonia Investments) | Business | |
| Campbell and Armstrong: better times ahead.(performance of Campbell and Armstrong) | Business | |
| Canal Plus: Hollywood dreams fade.(Canal Plus sells stake in Carolco) | Business | |
| Canal Plus.(performance of Canal Plus assessed) | Business | |
| Canny investors plump for savings schemes: savings schemes are not just for smaller investors who can't afford to make one-off lump sum investments. Drip-feeding your Pep brings valuable benefits which should appeal to all manner of investors. | Business | |
| Cantors grapples with uncomfortable times.(performance of Cantors ssessed) | Business | |
| Capital Corporation.(performance of Capital Corporation assessed) | Business | |
| Capital gain means tax pain.(UK capital gains tax examined; includes related notes on exemptions from capital gains tax and a worked calculation) | Business | |
| Capital sleight.(UK investment trust charges and performance) | Business | |
| Capita makes others' business its own.(performance of Capita) | Business | |
| Caradon.(performance of Caradon assessed) | Business | |
| Card Clear: swiping away fraud.(performance of Card Clear assessed) | Business | |
| Careful husbandry pays off for St Ives.(performance of St Ives assessed) | Business | |
| Carnell: feast or famine.(performance of Carnell assessed) | Business | |
| Cashing in on Christmas cheer.(performance of International Greetings) | Business | |
| Cashing in on Pep allowances.(UK personal equity plans) | Business | |
| Cashing in or contracting out.(peformance of Corporate Servicesassessed) | Business | |
| Cash management: there are number of reasons why charities might want to have cash reserves. How they are invested will depend on their size and how long they can be invested for. What is important is to maximise returns whilst minimising risk. (Charity Fund Management) | Business | John Hilderbrand |
| Cash, not tax. (purchasing a personal equity plan) | Business | |
| Cassell cashes in on catholic catechism: book publisher Cassell's story so far is one of goodtitles, sensible expansion and rising sales. Chapter two should bring more of the same. Theshares have further to run. | Business | |
| Catching up.(performance of shares in small UK companies) | Business | |
| Cattle's.(performance of Cattle's assessed) | Business | |
| Centres of attraction.(competition between offshore financial centers) | Business | Adam Courtenay |
| Centurion marches off.(Jan Timmer leaves Philips) | Business | |
| Challenging. (Chinese economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Changing societies: the best return an investor can currently get from a building society may well be 500 pounds sterling plus payout if a society merges or is taken over. But societies are also being stirred into action on their fundamental product ranges. | Business | |
| Charges cloud tax-free waters: the lure of tax-free returns is hard to resist but Peps are not always cost free. Basic rate taxpayers would be wise to take account of the effect of management charges. | Business | |
| Chase Manhattan.(performance of Chase Manhattan assessed) | Business | |
| Checking our Barings. (dangers of investing in derivatives) | Business | |
| Chilling out at Beales Hunter.(performance of Beales Hunter) | Business | |
| Choosing a financial adviser: when buying an investment, life assurance or pension product, you may decide that you wish to receive some informed financial advice. But should you choose an IFA or a tied agent? (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Tony McMahon |
| Choosing a PC: a PC is a PC but some are better than others. The more memory the better and a CD Rom and a high speed processor and modem are all highly desirable. | Business | Bob Alexander |
| Choosing a Pep to match your needs: Picking a Pep is no easy task. The best strategy is to draw up a shortlist of candidates that meet certain criteria before whittling it down to the most promising option. | Business | |
| Choosing a stockbroker.(selecting a stockbroker in the UK) | Business | |
| Christian Salvesen.(performance of Christian Salvesen) | Business | |
| Christmas: a big day for Turkey.(political developments and stock market in Turkey) | Business | |
| Cider attack.(UK strong cider affected by tax increase) | Business | |
| City redoubles efforts to create new jobs: with the help of government and EU funds, Chesterhas successfully managed to transform its image and diversify the local economy. Now, howeverit is on its own in the battle to attract new employers. | Business | David Thame |
| Climb every mountain.(performance of Albrighton assessed) | Business | |
| Clinton Cards: seasonal promise.(performance of Clinton Cards) | Business | |
| Cluff Resources: golden price.(possible bid for Cluff Resources) | Business | |
| Clyde Blowers: Bonnie on the Clyde. (performance of Clyde Blowers) | Business | |
| Coal Investments.(performance of Coal Investments assessed) | Business | |
| Coats Viyella.(performance of Coats Viyella assessed) | Business | |
| Communication: relocating is no easy matter, and mistakes can be costly. Communication is the simplest way to avoid the pitfalls. (Relocation and Inward Investment) | Business | Andrew Finney |
| Company facts: AT and T.(profile of AT and T) | Business | |
| Company facts: CIBA.(CIBA profiled) | Business | |
| Company facts: Danone.(profile of Danone) | Business | |
| Company facts: GTE. | Business | |
| Company facts: Merck.(profile of Merck) | Business | |
| Company facts: Rhone-Poulenc.(profile of Rhone-Poulenc) | Business | |
| Company facts: Roche.(profile of Roche) | Business | |
| Company facts: Royal PTT Nederland (KPN).(profile of Royal PTT Nederland) | Business | |
| Company facts: Telefonica.(profile of Telefonica) | Business | |
| Company facts: Texaco.(profile of Texaco) | Business | |
| Company facts: Time Warner.(profileof Time Warner) | Business | |
| Compel has ways of making customers buy.(performance of Compel assessed) | Business | |
| Competing for quotes: the Stock Exchange's pre-eminence in London is being challnged.Order-driven dealing systems in competition with SEAQ are likely to be launched in the nearfuture. | Business | |
| Competition.(business competition in South Africa) | Business | Charlene Smith |
| Computer industry: big blue not in the pink.(problems faced by International Business Machines) | Business | |
| Concentrating the fund wonderfully: Gartmore's Duncan Trinder manages a portfolio thatlooks a lot like those run by many private investors. With in-depth research a few of the best bluechips can beat the market consistently, he says. | Business | Stephen Lodge |
| conflict of loyalty makes life tough for watchdogs: cosy sinecure or complex and demanding? Opinions differ about the duties of the non-exec. While the opinion of many is that they are recruited on a mutual back scratching basis, on occations non-execs can and o show their teeth. | Business | |
| Conrad Ritblat.(performance of Conrad Ritblat examined) | Business | |
| Continental Europe: a mixed bag.(share prices in mainland Europe) | Business | |
| Contrasting fortunes.(performance of UK engineering firms) | Business | |
| Cordiant.(performance of Cordiant assessed) | Business | |
| Cortecs International.(performance of Cortecs International assessed) | Business | |
| Cosmetic operation.(Henkel acquires Schwarzkopf) | Business | |
| Costain.(performance of Costain assessed) | Business | |
| Cost isn't everything. (problems related to usage of stockbroking services in the UK) | Business | |
| Cosy charge club among indexed Peps: Gartmore has launched a Pep for its stock market tracking UK Index unit trust - but with double the annual charge. It could be argued that Virgin's Pep has set a new standard for higher, not lower charges. | Business | |
| Countryside Properties: bleak house.(performance of Countryside Properties) | Business | |
| Countryside Properties.(performance of Countryside Properties) | Business | |
| Courtaulds.(performance of Courtaulds) | Business | |
| Courtaulds pre-Tencel. (performance of Courtaulds shares examined) | Business | |
| Courtaulds Textiles.(performance of Courtaulds Textiles assessed) | Business | |
| Cray Electronics.(performance of Cray Electronics) | Business | |
| Credit Lyonnais.(performance of Credit Lyonnais assessed) | Business | |
| Credit Lyonnais.(performance of Credit Lyonnais assessed) | Business | |
| Credit, made in Japan.(Japanese monetary policy and international bond yields) | Business | |
| CrestaCare: taking care of business.(performance of CrestaCare assessed) | Business | |
| Crest moves up a gear. (performance of Crest Nicholson assessed) | Business | |
| Critchley.(performance of Critchley assessed) | Business | |
| Crunch time for Bensons - the chips are down. (performance of Bensons Crisps examined) | Business | |
| Currency query. (Chinese renminbi will remain strong) | Business | Merill Lynch |
| Cut deferred.(German interest rate policy) | Business | |
| Daily bread puts spice into Tomkins: Tomkins' acquisition of Ranks Hovis McDougall was considered a deal too far by many. But things are improving at RHM and Tomkins is set to recoveer some of its former zip. | Business | |
| Daimler in AEG headache.(Daimler Benz restructures) | Business | |
| Dalgety. (performance of Dalgety assessed) | Business | |
| Darby cracks the glass ceiling: shares in specialist glass maker Darby have performed poorly over the past 12 months. But flush with the proceeds from its rights issue, the company's depressed share price is due for a bounce. | Business | |
| Darker side to price wars. (investors should be cautious about cut-price personal equity plans) | Business | |
| Datafeeds: manually inputting and updating share prices may be the investor's cheapest option but it's also a tedious chore. For those who can't fact it, there are a range of data suppliers to make life easier. | Business | |
| Dawson makes an impressive debut.(performance of Dawson Holdings) | Business | |
| Dead in the water. (Kingfisher PLC) | Business | |
| Dealing in AIM shares.(the UK Alternative Investment Market) | Business | Brian Finch |
| 'Dear investor, we've lost half your money'....: nearly, anyway. The first reports and accounts of many of the specialist emerging market trusts launched last year are imminent. Most will show big losses. Private investors be warned. | Business | |
| Death of the consumer: the faltering US economy is presenting big problems for suppliers of consumer goods. | Business | |
| Decimation of an industry. (decline of coal industry in Nottinghamshire, England) | Business | |
| Deep waters lie offshore.(offshore market for UK investors) | Business | |
| De La Rue.(performance of De La Rue) | Business | |
| Demand for real estate strategy specialists grows. (transnational companies and the real estate industry) | Business | Alistair Elliot, Stephen Mallen |
| Denby.(performance of Denby) | Business | |
| Derby builds on engineering strengths. (economic aspects of Derby, England) | Business | |
| Despite the uncertainty, growth continues.(Portuguese economicdevelopments) | Business | |
| Developing tourism: which is the best way?(tourist industry in Madeira; includes relatednotes on Reid's hotel, Madeira) | Business | |
| Dewhirst: smooth progress.(performance of Dewhirstassessed) | Business | |
| Dial BT for value. (British Telecommunications PLC stock) | Business | |
| Diploma: feeling the pinch.(performance of Diploma) | Business | |
| Disclosure doesn't tell all. (problems related to personal pension plans and endowment policies) | Business | |
| Dissonance on Wall Street.(US equity and bond markets examined) | Business | |
| Distributing happiness. (performance of Electron House assessed) | Business | |
| Divided on Rolls-Royce.(performance of Roll-Royce shares) | Business | |
| Division.(performance of Division assessed) | Business | |
| DIY option is ideal for seasoned investors: self-select Peps are ideal for active investors who like to take their own decisions. But if you're considering this option, you should make yourself aware of any restrictions and the costs involved. | Business | |
| Dobson digs its heels in.(Harnischfeger seeks to acquire Dobson Park) | Business | |
| Does it matter where your manager is?: common sense suggests that a fund manager based on the spot in his chosen market will perform better than one working from outside. But real life is more complicated than that. | Business | |
| Dollar queries.(US stock markets examined) | Business | |
| Dolores in the doldrums.(rescue plan for Daimler-Benz) | Business | |
| Domestic bulls. (fund managers assess UK financial markets) | Business | |
| Donate your unwanted shares.(share donations to Connection, a UK charity) | Business | |
| Don't be dazzled by history. (history used for optimistic predictions for UK stock market) | Business | |
| Don't choose First Choice.(performance of First Choice assessed) | Business | |
| Don't get legal on us.(European Union reform of takeover regulations) | Business | Alistair Blair |
| Don't mention my pension. (choosing pension plans) | Business | |
| Don't miss the fun.(performance of UK stock market) | Business | |
| Don't rush in where angels fear to tread.(UK venture capital trusts) | Business | |
| Double shock.(Tawinese financial markets) | Business | |
| Dove-like noises. (US interest rates and financial markets) | Business | |
| Downmarket beauty.(L'Oreal acquires Maybelline) | Business | |
| Downside risk.(BZW forecast for UK equities) | Business | |
| Dow takes over.(economic factors affecting the US stock market) | Business | |
| Dracula gives tourism new blood.(Romanian tourist industry; includes related articles on food and drink and the Danube nature reserve) | Business | Alina Petric |
| Draining away. (performance of AH Ball assessed) | Business | |
| Drug deal uncertain.(planned merger between Pharmacia and Upjohn) | Business | |
| Drug groups eye Japan.(oral contraceptives may be legalized in Japan) | Business | |
| Drugmaker Meconic aims to hit new highs.(Meconic to carry out flotation) | Business | |
| Dudley Jenkins: junk mail delight.(performance of Dudley Jenkins assessed) | Business | |
| Dutch courage: Dutch group ING has pulled off quite a coup in rescuing Bariings from the administrators at a reasonable cost. | Business | |
| Eadie needs to smooth its rocky road.(performance of Eadie examined) | Business | |
| Early days. (US interest rate cycle examined) | Business | |
| Earnings fears return to centre stage.(corporate earnings and cost cutting) | Business | |
| Earnings scare.(technology stocks on Wall Street) | Business | |
| Easing the pain of critical illness.(health insurance in the UK) | Business | Linda Drake |
| Eastern promise?(performance of Japanese stock market) | Business | |
| EIS.(performance of EIS assessed) | Business | |
| Eldridge Pope's opening time looks overdue. | Business | |
| Election worries the French market. | Business | |
| Electricity: fall overdone.(impact of regulator on UK electric utilities' shareprices) | Business | |
| Electrocomponents.(performance of Electrocomponents assessed) | Business | |
| Electrolux.(performance of Electrolux assessed) | Business | |
| Elf Aquitaine.(profile of Elf Aquitaine) | Business | |
| Emerging choices: increase our exposure to emerging markets: that's the decision. The question is - how? | Business | |
| Emerging markets: a better year.(emerging markets in 1996) | Business | |
| Emerging markets: settling down.(performance of emerging markets) | Business | |
| Emerging Pacific.(performance of Pacific Media assessed) | Business | |
| Employers face 100 million pounds sterling pensions bill.(pension rights of part-time employees in the UK) | Business | |
| EMUsulation: for Italy, read France?(French economic policy and European monetary union) | Business | |
| End of the annuity lottery.(annuities for UK investors) | Business | David Prosser |
| ENI takers?(privatization of ENI) | Business | |
| Ensuring a better deal. (insurers form special schemes for high net worth customers) | Business | |
| Equities shrug off lower output figures.(UK economy and share prices) | Business | |
| Equity ncome funds look to be the best bet: total return is what really matters whether youare an income or a growth oriented investor. The wisest choice therefore will be a fund where theincome pay-out and capital value are likely to rise over the years. | Business | Anthony Bailey |
| ERF: roadblock ahead.(performance of ERF assessed) | Business | |
| Ericsson: the Italian job.(Ericsson awarded contract by Telecom Italia) | Business | |
| Escaping traps. (savings traps in the UK, and how to avoid them) | Business | |
| EU membership brings structural investment.(European Union investment inPortugal) | Business | |
| EU membership guarantees regulation.(offshore financial center inMadeira) | Business | |
| EU membership offers solution to division.(partition of Cyprus and planned membership of the European Union) | Business | |
| Euro Disney: Land of dreams.(performance of Euro Disney) | Business | |
| European privatisations: nothing to fear.(impact of privatizations in Europe on share prices) | Business | |
| Europe banks on the City.(Dresdner Bank seeks to acquire Kleinwort Benson) | Business | |
| Europe, recession risks. | Business | |
| Europe: record-breaking year: the shift towards buy-out investments continued, overtaking total invested in expansion capital in 1994. | Business | Matthew Baron |
| Eurpe tackles insurers over 'unfair' terms: changes can have a monstrous effect on the performance of life assurance and personal pension policies particularly. But next month sees new rules which should help to show investors what they are letting themselves in for. | Business | |
| Evaluating risk: a number of research companies have introduced risk ratings for investment funds. What does this mean in terms of investment performance? The Allenbridge Group explains. | Business | |
| Execution-only deals may sacrifice investors: the investment watchdogs are looking hard at controls on execution-only (no-advice) sales. Investors need to know whee they stand - and what they can do if their investment turns sour. | Business | |
| Expect a setback in September.(UK stock market in Sep 1995) | Business | |
| Expo breathes new life into city.(Expo 98 to be held in Lisbon,Portugal) | Business | |
| Export outlook turns down: export volume growth, which has been an important factor in the UK economic recovery, is tapering off as the slowdown in the world economic growth takes its toll. | Business | |
| Ex-telly chief is stepping on the gas at NFC. (performance of NFC assessed) | Business | |
| Exxon.(profile of Exxon) | Business | |
| Faber Prest. | Business | |
| Facelift for Ferruzzi.(Gemina aims to control Ferruzzi) | Business | |
| Falling rates spark optimism.(UK equities and interest rates) | Business | |
| Farnell Electronics: next stop the world. (performance of Farnell Electronics examined) | Business | |
| Farnell Electronics.(performance of Farnell Electronics assessed) | Business | |
| Ferry Pickering set to return to the fold.(performance of Ferry Pickering examined) | Business | |
| Few favour Hanson.(forecasts for Hanson shares) | Business | |
| Field of dreams.(valuation of Aran Energy assets) | Business | |
| Fife Indmar dances to a faster beat: Fife Indmar's half-year results reveal a company with growing sales, improving margins and health order books. But its shares continue to mark time. | Business | |
| Fifth freedom flights.(business travel and agreements between airlines; includes related article on ticketless travel) | Business | Catherine Chetwynd |
| Fighting for power.(profile of Norweb) | Business | |
| Fighting their corners.(likely performance of UK shares and the UK economy) | Business | |
| Figures support investment trusts' superiority claim: a glance at the performance tables would seem to suggest that investment trusts are the better home for your money - but this may not always be the case. | Business | |
| Finding a way through the emerging minefield: where the customer goes, the custodian must follow. Fund managers are as eager as ever to buy into exotic markets and so custodians must find solutions to the problems this path throws up. | Business | David Rudnick |
| Fit and healthy.(performance of Severfield-Reeve examined) | Business | |
| FKI.(performance of FKI) | Business | |
| Flat-to-net short.(performance of US stock market) | Business | |
| Fledgling DRS hits stormy weather: DRS has blotted its copybook in the City. Second-halfprofits collapsed last year as sales to schools dried up. With prospects in the current-year at bestuncertain, DRS's shares are on shaky ground. | Business | |
| Flexible pension friends: pensions are highly tax-efficient investments. But as with most taxbreaks there is a price in terms of restrictions. Nevertheless they can still be surprisingly flexibleinvestments. | Business | |
| Flexing your income muscle. (new flexible pension annuities; last in series) | Business | |
| Flextech: the future looks bright: low profile Flextech has positioned itself well to take full advantage of the growing pay-television market and the advent of new technologies such as digital TV. | Business | |
| Follow the herd.(UK personal equity plans) | Business | |
| Foreign investment.(investment in South Africa) | Business | |
| Forte.(performance of Forte examined) | Business | |
| France: dull performer.(French share prices and economic policy) | Business | |
| France: gnomes at work.(currency speculation and the French franc) | Business | |
| France: not yet.(performance of French stock market and the impact of interest rates) | Business | |
| France: open question.(French economy and financial markets) | Business | |
| Frederick Cooper: over the rainbow. (performance of Frederick Cooper) | Business | |
| Freedom of information at a price.(obtaining information on securities) | Business | |
| French equities: disappointment.(performance of French stock market) | Business | |
| From Russia to Cuba with lower costs. (new areas of interest and marketing approaches for UK investment fund managers) | Business | |
| Frontier of capitalism.(investing in Russian assets) | Business | |
| Funding fears miss the point.(UK government securities and the budget deficit) | Business | |
| Gallic conundrums.(performance of French stock market) | Business | |
| Games people don't play: the computer games industry had a terrible 1994. But Sega has justlaunched a long-awaited new hig-tech CD system. Now retailers as well as the manufacturersmust wait to see how well the games will sell. | Business | Tony McMahon |
| Gas burned out.(stockbrokers' views on British Gas) | Business | |
| Gas under pressure. (performance of British Gas shares) | Business | |
| GEC after Weinstock.(performance of GEC shares assessed) | Business | |
| Geest.(performance of Geest assessed) | Business | |
| General Cable.(performance of General Cable) | Business | |
| General Motors: cash back.(General Motors increasesdividend) | Business | |
| General Motors. (performance of General Motors assessed) | Business | |
| George Wimpey.(performance of George Wimpey assessed) | Business | |
| German interest rates: rate reversal.(views of Lehman Brothers on German interest rates) | Business | |
| Germany: higher threshold.(tax changes should help German consumption) | Business | |
| Germany: upstaged.(Bundesbank policy on interest rates) | Business | |
| Getting better endowed: every week, thousands of investors receive 10,000 pounds sterling or more as their endowment policies mature. Insurers are keen for the proceeds to be reinvested with them. But many investors would be better off going elsewhere. | Business | |
| Getting managers to take companies to task: investment managers recently united to win changes in the pay package of Martin Sorrell, chief executive of advertsing agency WPP. do you want your fund manager to do more of this? | Business | |
| Getting personal on pensions: personal pension plans have had a bad press recently. Manypeople were sold them when they shouldn't have been. But they can still be very lucrative andflexible investments. | Business | |
| Getting results from Investors Chronicle. (interpreting corporate results and share price information) | Business | |
| Getting stuck in the unit trust quicksands: some unit trusts have been crawling along the bottom of the performance tables for years. Investors need to know when to cut their losses and pull out of irredeemably dud funds. | Business | |
| Getting to grips with the gift of the gab.(terminology of stockbrokers, and their practices explained) | Business | |
| Gillette.(profile of Gillette) | Business | |
| Gilts: looking for a cut.(performance of government securities in the UK and US) | Business | |
| Glaxo mega-bid born of desperation not innovation: add together two drug companies with growth problems, and you don't necessarily end up with a world-beater. Glaxo's cost-led bid for Wellcome suggests a shortage of ideas at the UK's leading pharmaceuticals grou. | Business | tom Winnifrith |
| Glaxo Wellcome set to pass the acid test.(performance of Glaxo Wellcome) | Business | |
| Glenchewton: tasty fare.(performance of Glenchewton) | Business | |
| Global bonds: growth queries.(forecast for global bond markets) | Business | |
| Global bonds: wait for it.(changes in world bond market) | Business | |
| Global custody: the great shake-out has started. When it's all over, it will be possible to count the number of truly global custodians on the fingers of one hand. | Business | David Hunt |
| Global economics: divided views.(world economic growth prospects forecast by Kleinwort Benson) | Business | |
| Global economy: disinflation.(world economy in 1996 according to Salomon Brothers) | Business | |
| Global economy: getting better.(economic growth and monetary policy world wide) | Business | |
| Global equities: dollar the key.(world financial markets and the value of the US dollar) | Business | |
| Global strategy: fully invested.(strategies for global portfolios) | Business | |
| Go-go guilder.(rise in value of the Dutch guilder) | Business | |
| Going for gilts. (problems related to investments in UK government securities) | Business | |
| Going Japanese two by two.(investment trusts specializing in Japan; includes related notes on funds) | Business | |
| Going your own way.(self-select personal equity plans for UK investors) | Business | Justin Urquhart Stewart |
| Gonzalez goodbye good for Madrid?(performance of Spanish stock market) | Business | |
| Good buy to class of '95.(performance of selected stock tips in 1995) | Business | |
| Good company on the growth path.(company performance in Manchester, England) | Business | John Dickinson |
| Goodhead: going nowhere.(performance of Goodhead examined) | Business | |
| Good neighbours.(Credit Lyonnais may set up agreement with Allianz) | Business | |
| Grand Met cum pet. (Grand Metropolitan stocks outperform themarket) | Business | |
| Grand Metropolitan.(performance of Grand Metropolitan) | Business | |
| GrandMet spices up its act.(performance of Grand Metropolitan assessed) | Business | |
| Green light for Peek.(performance of Peek examined) | Business | |
| Green on pay? (ethical investment and executive pay in the UK) | Business | |
| Grid's grey shares buzz.(National Grid shares start to trade) | Business | |
| Groucho sets its sights on a new club west.(performance of Groucho Club London) | Business | |
| Growing, diversifying.(tourist industry in Portugal) | Business | |
| Growing up. (UK investment funds carry out launches; includes related article on new issues) | Business | |
| Growth and stability, despite the problems.(economic development of Cyprus) | Business | |
| Growth manual.(performance of Haynes Publishing assessed) | Business | |
| Growth optimism.(prospects for UK economy) | Business | |
| Growth vs prudence. (performance of UK economy) | Business | |
| Guaranteed underperformance.(guaranteed equity bonds for UK investors) | Business | |
| Guardian Royal Exchange.(Performance of Guardian Royal Exchange assessed) | Business | |
| Guiding you to society windfalls. (building societies) | Business | |
| Gus Carter: lottery casualty.(performance of Gus Carter assessed) | Business | |
| GUS has dividends in store.(performance of Great Universal Stores) | Business | |
| Hadleigh Industries: better in bulk. (performance of Hadleigh Industries examined) | Business | |
| Hail of paper obscures Malaya's tracks.(performance of Malaya assessed) | Business | |
| Halma.(performance of Halma) | Business | |
| Hambro Countrywide.(performance of Hambro Countrywide assessed) | Business | |
| Hanson: dull over here and dull over there.(performance of Hanson assessed) | Business | |
| Happy pigs. (performance of Cranswick assessed) | Business | |
| Hard hats donned at PTS. (PTS plans flotation) | Business | |
| Harsh medicine boosts Fisons' prospects.(performance of Fisons assessed) | Business | |
| Hartstone.(performance of Hartstone examined) | Business | |
| Has the attack on endowments gone too far?: endowment mortgages have been slated in the press and some institutions have even stopped selling these policies. But are they really that bad and are the alternatives any better? (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Anthony Barnett |
| Hay and Robertson: stunning debut.(performance of hay and Robertson) | Business | |
| Hays.(performance of Hays assessed) | Business | |
| Hays: sure footing in Europe. (performance of Hays examined) | Business | |
| Hell for leather. (growth in the global economy from 1995) | Business | |
| Help for the aged.(measures affecting residential care for the aged in the UK Nov 1995 Budget) | Business | |
| Hewden Stuart: good times rollin' (performance of Hewden Stuart examined) | Business | |
| Hewitt: potters perk up.(performance of Hewitt assessed) | Business | |
| Hickson.(performance of Hickson assessed) | Business | |
| Higher interest rates away from societies: Insurers' guaranteed income bonds (Gibs) can offer higher rates than building societies for investors seeking a safe home for their money. | Business | |
| High-flier accountants are calling the shots: demand for accountants who can offer more thanjust number-crunching skills is threatening to outstrip supply. This recruitment drive is pushingup salaries and improving overall packages after the lean years ofrecession. | Business | Elaine Carlton |
| High-flying Megalomedia makes a storming return.(performance of Megalomedia) | Business | |
| High hopes.(UK stockholders expect higher dividends) | Business | |
| High income over-hyped? (disadvantages of high income funds) | Business | |
| Hill Hire: motoring nicely.(performance of Hill Hire) | Business | |
| Hillsdown runs hard to stand still: the recent disappointing set of interim results suggests that previousl growth expectations for Hillsdown may not now be realised. The shares could be dull performers. | Business | |
| Hi-tech funds hyped.(investing in hi-tech stocks) | Business | |
| Hi-Tec tripped up by changing fasions: sports shoe group Hi-Tec Sports has been slammedby competition from huge rivals like Nike and Reebok. Its interest charges now swamp operatingprofits and with the trading outlook bleak, its shares are highrisk. | Business | |
| Hold-ups on the Equity autostrada.(performance of shares in the Italian stock market) | Business | |
| Holiday from foreign exchange rip-offs.(expenses arising from foreign exchange) | Business | |
| Holliday Chemical.(performance of Holliday Chemical assessed) | Business | |
| Home income plans.(home income plans for UK investors) | Business | Andy Michael |
| Homeless rising.(UK housebuilders leave the sector) | Business | |
| Hong Kong: nagging worries.(Hong Kong economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Hong Kong: the double warrant.(performance of Hong Kong stock market) | Business | |
| Hong Kong watchers debate degradation.(Hong Kong financial markets) | Business | |
| Hope not hype. (performance of Virtuality examined ) | Business | |
| Hoping for the big time.(performance of Winchester Multimedia) | Business | |
| Horses for courses.(different types of unit trusts available to UK investors) | Business | |
| Housebuilders awake from their nightmare.(UK construction industry may undergo recovery) | Business | |
| House price recovery still at rainbow's end: house prices show no signs of booming in thenear term. Home owners may have to wait until the next decade for any significantupturn. | Business | |
| How your health eats into your wealth,(annuities and life expectancy) | Business | |
| Human resources management: a new deal for careers.(changes in careers in the UK) | Business | Geoffrey Golzen |
| Hung up on telecoms.(developments in the German telecoms industry) | Business | |
| Huntingdon.(performance of Huntingdon) | Business | |
| Hunting: on the warpath.(performance of Hunting assessed) | Business | |
| IBM. | Business | |
| IBM.(performance of IBM assessed) | Business | |
| Iceland takes chill out of sentiment: shares in Iceland responded well to recent results, butprospects of more progressive dividend policy should encouragefurtherrehabilitation. | Business | |
| ICI after Q3 figures.(performance of ICI shares) | Business | |
| Icing on Tessa's birthday cake. (UK savings accounts allowing tax relief) | Business | |
| IES: candid camera.(performance of IES assessed) | Business | |
| Imbalance. (Sweden suffers from structuralimbalance) | Business | PaineWebber |
| Impressive debut for Pet City.(performance of Pet City) | Business | |
| Improving quality key to Albert Fisher's revival: a massive dividend yield suggests the market doesn't think too much of Albert Fisher's recovery potential. But if has sorted itself out the upside is considerable. | Business | |
| Inchcape.(performance of Inchcape assessed) | Business | |
| Income-ing year good news. (strategies for UK investors in 1995) | Business | |
| Increased trade the key to world growth. | Business | |
| India: going up.(performance of Indian stock market) | Business | |
| Industrial property activity slows down.(industrial real estate investment in Manchester, England) | Business | Thomas (Welsh travel writer) Davies |
| Industrial zone sees investment pour in.(foreign investment in industry inMadeira) | Business | |
| Industry faces up to competition.(manufacturing industry in Cyprus) | Business | |
| Industry recovers from the Revolution.(Romanian industry) | Business | |
| Inflationary pressures build up: the latest inflation forecast from the Bank of England is much higher than the one published in February. Higher interest rates are needed to prevent inflation taking off again. | Business | |
| Inflow, outflow. (impact of the devaluation of the Mexican peso on Latin American financial markets) | Business | |
| Inheritance plans.(UK tax planning) | Business | |
| Inputting data is no longer a chore: investment software is pretty much useless without data.To save the investor inputting hundreds of prices every day, a range of automated systems havebeen developed. The more reliable they are, the more they cost. | Business | David Gardner |
| Institutional attitudes.(UK institutional trust shareholders) | Business | Liz Walkington |
| Insurance: the implication of under-insurance - or worse, lack of insurance - for chairties can be devastating. (Charity Fund Management) | Business | Sophie Jeffreys |
| International aid.(aid to South Africa) | Business | Simon Segal |
| Into Africa.(investing in Africa as an emerging market) | Business | |
| Into the quagmire.(problems facing Pacific Rim economies) | Business | |
| Invesco.(performance of Invesco assessed) | Business | |
| Investing for art's sake. | Business | |
| Investing in science.(science and technology policy inMadeira) | Business | |
| Investing to avoid taxking times to come: the countdown to the next general election has effectively started. Investors might well be advised to make the most of current tax breaks. Some may not be around for much longer. | Business | |
| Investment market.(investment in UK real estate industry) | Business | Alan Patterson |
| Investment preferences: 'too much money chasing too few deals' is the familiar cry of the venture capital industry. | Business | Graham Woolfman |
| Investment set to boom: capacity constraints are building up in certain sections of the economy. This should lead to higher investment in manufacturing in particular, although it is other sectors that are generating the most cash. | Business | |
| Investment strategy: in devising their long-term investment strategy, should charities sacrifice income in favour of growth? (Charity Fund Management) | Business | Rupert Marlow |
| Investment trust results split up. (split capital investment trusts) | Business | |
| Investment trusts.(advice on investment trusts for UK investors) | Business | Stephen Trowbridge |
| Investment trusts need more takeovers. | Business | |
| Investment trusts that must try harder.(advice to investors on poorly perforoming investment trusts) | Business | |
| Investors are sitting pretty: the outlook for investors remains good as cost-cutting and diversification by the old hands should more than compensate for loss of market share to newcomers. | Business | |
| Investors chase Arjo paper lower: earnings prospects at Argo Wiggins Appleton look good on paper. But investors remain wary of management and industry trends. | Business | |
| Investors hit by Crest....(investors face high charges from Crest) | Business | |
| Investors saddled with cross-holdings.(cross-holdings and investment trusts) | Business | |
| IRG management trio tuned into future.(performance of Independent Radio Group assessed) | Business | |
| Irish eyes are smiling. (performance of Hampden Group examined) | Business | |
| Is Europe missing the bourse? (new body sets up European bourse; includes related article on dealing in the US) | Business | David Rudnick |
| Is that callaloo fresh?: in the last two years West Trust has swapped its textile business for food processing and distribution. Now it hopes to build on the growing market in the UK for ethnic food. | Business | |
| Italy: uncertain times.(political uncertainty and its impact on the Italian economy) | Business | |
| It pays to shop around for the best deals: risk-shy investors often opt for the safety of thebuilding society deposit account and resign themselves in these days of low interest rates to anunsatisfactory rate of return. But shopping around can be a very worthwhileexercise. | Business | Antony Barnett |
| It's good to talk about telecoms.(future of UK telecommunications industry) | Business | |
| It's OK for OEICs.(open-ended investment companies to be launched in the UK) | Business | |
| It's superpub.(performance of Surrey Free Inns assessed) | Business | |
| Ivernia West.(performance of Ivernia West examined) | Business | |
| James Dickie engineers new business.(performance of James Dickie) | Business | |
| January: price rise likely. (performance of stock market during the month of January) | Business | |
| Japan: apocalypse now.(Japanese economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Japan: bailing out the banks.(Japanese government seeks to help banking industry) | Business | |
| Japan: building blocks.(Japanese economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Japan: cautious bulls.(Japanese economy and stock market assessed by Kleinwort Benson) | Business | |
| Japan: Daiwa a sub-plot.(Daiwa Bank and the Japanese banking system) | Business | |
| Japan: early days.(Japanese economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Japanese bonds: second thoughts.(market for Japanese government securities) | Business | |
| Japanese yen: falling.(forecasts for Japanese yen from Nat West Markets) | Business | |
| Japan: glimmers of optimism.(Japanese share prices rise) | Business | |
| Japan: in suspense.(Japanese fiscal policy and the decline in the value of the Japanese yen) | Business | |
| Japan: in the nick of time.(Japanese economy and financial markets) | Business | |
| Japan: over the worst.(problems facing Japanese banks) | Business | |
| Japan: painful process.(problems facing Japanese banking industry and their impact on share prices) | Business | |
| Japan: premium problem.(problems facing Japanese banks) | Business | |
| Japan: record levels.(impact of Japanese investment on world bond marketa as seen by HSBC markets) | Business | |
| Japan: slow progress.(performance of Japanese stock exchange) | Business | |
| Japan: stay overweight.(forecast for Japanese economy and stock market from Goldman Sachs) | Business | |
| Japan: the big bail out.(Japanese share prices and banking crisis) | Business | |
| Japan: the sun also rises.(Japanese economic recovery) | Business | |
| Japan: unwinding.(Japanese yen weakens) | Business | |
| Jaro International.(profile of Jaro International) | Business | |
| JJB Sports scores highly: JJB Sports is on to a winner with its branded sportswear products and recent healthy results have left the opposition looking pedestrian. New stores and shopping concepts should ensure JJB's continuing dominance. | Business | |
| Jobs to die for.(UK employers face claims over stress at work) | Business | Elaine Carlton |
| Jones & Shipman: let the good times roll: Jones & Shipman's share prices fails to discount the group's tremendous recovery appeal. Swelling order books and a strong competitive footing will allow the company to rebound solidly into the black this year. | Business | |
| Jourdan presses on: the recession left scars at Thomas Jourdan, but the sale of the loss-making fitted kitchen operation and hopes for increased DIY business from Sainsbury's Homebase suggest a healthy recovery. | Business | |
| Juicier guarantees hide lower potential: guaranteed equity investments are offering better andbetter deals, say companies. But investors should remember these investments are no freelunch. | Business | |
| June: a tough one to call: historical trends indicate good odds for a June equity price rise in London. But they also point to a fall on Wall Street, which could drag London down. Higher prices are likely for the rest of 1995, though. | Business | |
| Keeping company with your pension.(UK company pension schemes) | Business | |
| Keeping on track.(UK index tracking funds) | Business | |
| Keeping your pep company. (peps to hold one company's shares) | Business | |
| Keep those settlements rolling: the switch to five-day rolling settlement for shares is just three weeks away. How big an effect will it have on investors? | Business | |
| Keep trying. (Hoechst negotiates over possible acquisition) | Business | |
| Keller: bucking the trend.(performance of Keller assessed) | Business | |
| Knitting its own recovery story: a bleak high street has meant hard times for textiles maker Martin International and its employees. But is ties with Marks and Spencer remain in place and seem to be strengthening. | Business | |
| Kobe effects less than feared. (no downturn in economic activity despite Kobe earthquake) | Business | |
| KPN finds a Czech mate: the Dutch telecoms and postal service, KPN, has stolen a march on rivals in eastern Europe. | Business | |
| Kunick.(performance of Kunick) | Business | |
| Kvaerner.(performance of Kvaerner) | Business | |
| Ladbroke.(performance of Ladbroke assessed) | Business | |
| Land of the falling yen.(investing in Japan) | Business | |
| Land Securities.(performance of Land Securities) | Business | |
| Large lets multi-tied genie loose.(proposals to change regulations governing the UK pensions industry) | Business | |
| Lawyers and accountants enter the fray. (traditional providers of private client services face competition from accountants and solicitors) | Business | |
| Lazards admits defeat and raises fund charges. | Business | |
| Learning to live with a labour of love.(policies of UK Labor Party) | Business | |
| Learning your weights and measures: advice from stockbrokers on which shares to buy and sell should be straightforward. But frequently brokes' suggestions sound incomprehensible. | Business | |
| Leaving it to Sema.(performance of Sema assessed) | Business | |
| Legal and General: full price on life.(performance of Legal and General assessed) | Business | |
| Legal and General.(performance of Legal and General assessed) | Business | |
| Legal and General.(performance of Legal and General assessed) | Business | |
| Less is more: quality and varied tourism.(tourist industry in Cyprus) | Business | |
| Lessons from the past: profits are to be had from emerging markets. But the experiences of the emerging markets of the 19th century show that foreigners might not be best placed to reap them. (Fund Management) | Business | Marc Dr. Faber |
| Lessons of the bond yield curve.(US bond prices) | Business | |
| Lex Service: bumpy ride for dealers.(performance of Lex Service) | Business | |
| Life can be wonderful. (performance of Legal and General examined) | Business | |
| Life gets tough in the builders' yards.(UK builders' merchants affected by real estate crisis) | Business | Alan Yates |
| Life insurance windfalls.(impact of mergers in the UK life insurance industry) | Business | |
| Lifting the lid on another racket: you think pensions aren't sexy? Think again. Over the next couple of years you will read more about directors' pensions in the financial pages than you've read in all of the past two decades. | Business | Michael Brett |
| Links that are not so risk-free.(political risk and investment in the UK) | Business | |
| Littlechild ends party at East Midlands.(performance of East Midland Electricity assessed) | Business | |
| Little short-term cheer for smaller companies. (performance of shares in UK small companies) | Business | |
| Living off a much better heritage: selling pots and pans to giant retailers is no recipe for success. Heritage is struggling to make headway and even when it does it normally encounters some bad luck. It's best to sell. | Business | |
| LLoyd's Abbey Life. (performance of Lloyds Abbey Life assessed) | Business | |
| LLoyd Thompson.(performance of Lloyd Thompson assessed) | Business | |
| Logica: systems buzzing.(performance of Logica) | Business | |
| London and Manchester: treasure trove.(performance of London and Manchester) | Business | |
| London Electricity.(performance of London Electricity) | Business | |
| Long distance calls overload Vodaphone.(performance of Vodaphone assessed) | Business | |
| Long-term scare.(UK government encourages insurance to pay for nursing care) | Business | |
| Lookers: ticking over nicely.(performance of Lookers assessed) | Business | |
| Looking for a speedy recovery. (practice of fund manager Graham Clapp who runs Fidelity Recovery unit trust) | Business | Steve Lodge |
| Looking forward to a better year. (share prices and interest rates in the UK in 1995) | Business | |
| Looking on the bright side.(UK corporate profits) | Business | |
| Losing the Abbey habit.(performance of Abbey National shares assessed) | Business | |
| Lost momentum.(performance of UK government securities) | Business | |
| Lots of potential in NI Power: Northern Ireland Electricity offers investors numerousattractions - notably savings in manpower, restructuring, links with the rest of Ireland andScotland and non-gas ventures. | Business | |
| Lower view of Courts.(performance of Courtaulds assessed) | Business | |
| Low ratings outshine interest rate fears.(UK economy and financialmarkets) | Business | |
| Loyalty's only skin-deep. (UK divided over relations with European Union) | Business | Matthew Parris |
| Lucas Industries.(performance of Lucas Industries assessed) | Business | |
| LVMH.(profile of LVMH) | Business | |
| Mackie looks forward to a liquid future.(performance of Mackie assessed) | Business | |
| Madeira: the perfect climate for investment.(foreign investment inMadeira) | Business | |
| Magnolia: back in the frame.(peformance of Magnoliaassessed) | Business | |
| MAID eyes US.(MAID seeks Nasdaq listing) | Business | |
| Make the best of the endowment backlash: the good old repayment mortgage is coming back into fashion following the public disscrace of its racier cousin, the endowment. But borrowers have plenty to gain from looking at other mortgage choices. | Business | |
| Making a return on the British film industry: The Scott brothers have recently bought the Shepperton Studios. The backers explain why they believe their investment is sound. (Management buy-outs) | Business | Marek Gumienny |
| Making arrangements for your portfolio: making sure your portfolio ends up in the right hands at a minimum cost and tax efficiency after your death is a key part of inheritance tax planning. What are the options? (Personal Financial Planing) | Business | John Housden |
| Making a science of an art form.(using charts to analyse trends in share prices) | Business | Robin Griffiths |
| Malaysia: hubris?(performance of Malaysian economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Malaysia: vote happy.(problems facing the Malysian economy) | Business | |
| Manchester calling: Cable TV and phone companies are queuing up to float. CableComms has just joined the list. | Business | |
| Manchester United tops the financial league.(performance of Manchester United assessed) | Business | |
| M and G Group.(performance of M and G Group assessed) | Business | |
| M and S targets childrens books.(Marks and Spencer moves into book retailing) | Business | |
| Mapping the genome busters. (biotechnology company shares_ | Business | Neil Fish, Keith Cook |
| Margins come under pressure.(UK input costs and profit margins) | Business | |
| Market artists make their marke: how do chartists get on in the real world?: how can private investors get started in using technical analysis to track their equity investments? | Business | |
| Market jitters.(factors affecting UK financial markets) | Business | |
| Marley.(performance of Marley assessed) | Business | |
| Marling Industries.(performance of Marling Industries assessed) | Business | |
| Mayborn: eclectic but nice.(performance of Mayborn assessed) | Business | |
| McDonnell Douglas: planr ride to riches. | Business | |
| Measuring your portfolio manager. (private client portfolio management services need to be regulated) | Business | |
| Mediterranean communications.(Cyprus infrastructure examined,) | Business | |
| Meeting the demand for faster settlement: the trend towards ever shorter timescales in global settlement has serious technology implications for custodians. | Business | Arron Dack |
| MEPC.(performance of MEPC) | Business | |
| Merck: premium rating.(Merck plans flotation) | Business | |
| Mercury Asset Management.(performance of Mercury Asset Management assessed) | Business | |
| Mersey: a contender on the waterfront.(performance of Mersey Docks and Harbour examined) | Business | |
| MFI: coming unstuck.(performance of MFI assessed) | Business | |
| Midland Independent. (performance of Midland Independent examined) | Business | |
| Midland launches cheap share service.(Midland Bank offers cheap share dealing) | Business | |
| Midnight approaches: with the end of the tax year less than three weeks away, investors should plan now to pay as little tax as possible. | Business | |
| Mighty mark dents German earnings: it is not just the strength of the D-Mark against the dollar that is causing Germany companies alarm. | Business | |
| Miles better than anyone else.(investment advice from Miles Beharrell, winner of competition on investment performance) | Business | |
| Millenium: waiting for the millenium.(performance of Millenium) | Business | |
| Mind the ceiling, Dorrell tells media emperors: under new rules on media ownership, the small guys can get bigger but some of the big guys will be forced to get smaller. It's sure to set off a year of arguing over media power. | Business | Delroy. Alexander |
| MISYS closes the final act. (MIYS bids for ACT) | Business | |
| Mobil.(performance of Mobil assessed) | Business | |
| Momentous events, but little has changed.(office real estate investment in Manchester, England) | Business | Tom Marshall |
| Money-back option for 'misled' bond Pep pioneers. (UK regulator moves on bond fund) | Business | |
| Money matters.(money markets and price-money ratios) | Business | |
| Moorepay: on a winning roll.(performance of Moorepay assessed) | Business | |
| Moorfield buoyed up by innovative ideals.(performance of Moorfield) | Business | |
| Morbid market raises regulatory fears.(life insurance policies sold by the terminally ill) | Business | |
| More choice on retirement packages. (options for investors planning to retire) | Business | |
| More fun than privatisation.(mergers between UK building societies; includes related noteson building societies' values and signs of a possible merger) | Business | Stephen Lodge |
| More power to the people. (UK government privatizes stakes in PowerGen and National Power; includes related article giving information on the two companies) | Business | |
| 'More sinned against than sinning.' (regulation of UK insurers) | Business | |
| More ups than downs: the first half of 1995 is already over. Would you believe it? We review what went up, down or sideways and consider why. | Business | |
| Morgan Sindall: small light in a sea of gloom.(performance of Morgan Sindall assessed) | Business | |
| Morris's dance finds plenty of fans.(performance of Morris Ashby assessed) | Business | |
| Motor World: back street to success.(performance of Motor World assessed) | Business | |
| Moving thoughts about pensions.(transferring pensions in theUK) | Business | |
| Mr Financial Adviser D.I.M.(qualifications for the UK financial services industry) | Business | |
| Mrs mop gets her pension: companies employing large numbers of part-time workers will be groaning in despair at the European Court's decision to give these workers full pension rights. | Business | |
| Much more gloom than glee.(UK corporate results) | Business | |
| Mucking about.(performance of Hydro International examined) | Business | |
| Multimedia puts itself on the map.(performance of Multimedia Corporation) | Business | |
| Murky waters lie offshore. (problems related to investments using offshore products; includes related notes giving an example) | Business | |
| National Express.(performance of National Express assessed) | Business | |
| National Grid: green light for autumn.(National Grid flotation planned) | Business | |
| National Savings don't have to be a lottery. | Business | |
| National Westminster. (National Westminster Bank) | Business | |
| NatWest's $4bn poser.(share price performance of National Westminster Bank) | Business | |
| Neepsend: nine lives.(performance of Neepsend assessed) | Business | |
| Nelson buffeted in Lloyd's storm.(performance of Nelson Hurstassessed) | Business | |
| Nervous about higher interest rates: the volatile world of traded options is explained with money-making strategies. But options are risky. Consult your adviser before dealing. | Business | |
| Nestor nurses itself back to health. (performance of Nestor BNA examined) | Business | |
| New arrivals add spice to business recipe.(inward investment in Manchester, England) | Business | Dave Thame |
| New brands for old.(City Centre Restaurants expands and modernises) | Business | |
| New car sales stall. (UK automobile sales) | Business | |
| New cars for old.(French government seeks to boost car sales) | Business | |
| New client challenge for stockbrokers. (how stockbrokers keep old clients and attract new ones) | Business | |
| New dawn for Eclipse. (Eclipse Blinds Systems) | Business | |
| New funds with old themes battle for subscribers: new launches are very often the product of providers' desire to get themselves noticed in a crowded market but this doesn't mean the plans are not worth considering. | Business | |
| New ground.(UK stock markets examined) | Business | |
| New horizons.(investing in emerging markets) | Business | |
| New ingredients. (performance of Sara Lee examined ) | Business | |
| New leap forward beckons for Wall Street. (predictions of the performance of US share prices) | Business | Neil Kerr |
| New life at UBS.(Union Bank of Switzerland moves into life insurance) | Business | |
| Newman Tonks.(performance of Newman Tonks assessed) | Business | |
| New rules are a boon for income seeking investors: with the number of Peps on offer fast approaching the 1,000 mark, investors are spoilt for choice. But Peps taking advantage of new rules permitting investment in certain fixed interest securities will be a hot favourite. | Business | |
| Newsprint shock horror.(performance of Daily Mail and General Trust assessed) | Business | |
| New Zealand: slowing down.(performance of New Zealand economy) | Business | |
| Next back in the premier league.(Next improves performance) | Business | |
| NFC.(performance of NFC examined) | Business | |
| Nice work.(performance of Flomerics) | Business | |
| No big hit in 1995.(performance of securities in May eachyear) | Business | |
| No call for a gold rush.(gold funds examined) | Business | |
| No disaster. (US economic growth and the UK balance of trade) | Business | |
| No easy way out for BES investors.(problems facing investors in UK Business Expansion Schemes) | Business | |
| No hurry to buy new Peps. (UK market for personal equity plans in 1995) | Business | |
| Nokia.(performance of Nokia examined) | Business | |
| No let up. (new takeover bids appear each day in UK) | Business | |
| Nominee charges.(UK stockbrokers' charges for nominee accounts) | Business | |
| No place for the impatient investor.(emerging markets as a long-term investment opportunity) | Business | Andrew Gregory |
| Norsk Hydro. (performance of Norsk Hydro examined) | Business | |
| Northern exposure.(performance of Northern Electric PLC shares assessed) | Business | |
| Northern plays for time in regulatory vacuum: Trafalgar House wants Northern Electric to let shareholders decide on its latest takeover offer. But electricity companies are in a spin while the industry regulator makes his mind up on price controls. | Business | Jennings Patricia |
| Norwegians in a spin.(Hafslund Nycomed plans demerger) | Business | |
| Norwich Union: mutual no longer.(Norwich Union may carry out flotation after demutualization) | Business | |
| No stairway to heaven. (problems related to escalator bonds in the UK; includes related article giving an example) | Business | |
| No stemming of cross-border flows. (cross-border equity flows) | Business | |
| No such thing as a free unit trust. (problems related to UK unit trust investments in the UK) | Business | |
| No surprise. (reaction of UK stock market to interest rate rise) | Business | |
| Not always much of a tax shelter. (problems related to personal equity plans as an investment in the UK; includes related notes giving an example) | Business | |
| Not so ethical advertising. (UK Co-operative Bank criticised over advertising) | Business | |
| Not so rosy. (performance of Community Hospitals assessed) | Business | |
| Not working in Germany.(German economy and financial markets) | Business | |
| Now for the interesting bit.(UK Nov 1995 Budget and economy) | Business | |
| Now you see it, now you don't.(using graphs to measure prices) | Business | |
| Nuclear Electric: safety risk clouds float.(planned privatization of Nuclear Electric) | Business | |
| NWF: fruits of a drought.(performance of NWF assessed) | Business | |
| Off to a flying start.(work of English Partnerships) | Business | |
| Oil, gas and energy.(Romanian energy industry) | Business | |
| Oil: mild outlook. (performance of petroleum market in 1994 and 1995) | Business | |
| Oil: on the up.(performance of prices in the petroleum industry) | Business | |
| OldMacDonald had an investment.(farmland as an investment) | Business | |
| Olivetti: ring of good news.(Olivetti shares rise) | Business | |
| On a knife-edge.(US interest rate policy and impact on financial markets) | Business | |
| On course. (UK economy in 1995) | Business | |
| One man's meat.(impact of US interest rate changes) | Business | |
| One-off deals fail to plug BAe cash drain. (British Aerospace) | Business | |
| On the line.(Bank of England forecasts) | Business | |
| Optimism at Boots.(forecasts for Boots share price performance) | Business | |
| Optimism in health sector despite obstacles. (private sector funding for UK National Health Service) | Business | Antony Barnett |
| Optimism returns.(performance of UK stock market) | Business | |
| Out of a spin.(performance of Drummond examined) | Business | |
| Out of joint at Essex Furniture.(performance of Essex Furniture assessed) | Business | |
| Out of the Halifax.(cash unit trusts for UK investors) | Business | |
| Outplacement services: what they offer.(outplacement services in the UK) | Business | Philip Schofield |
| Overpowerful, overpaid and over here: not so long ago management consultants were confined to the US. Today they're big in the UK, but what exactly is it they do, and do they give value for money. | Business | Delroy. Alexander |
| Overseas funds buoy up UK market. (Uk real estate industry attracts funds from abroad) | Business | John Rigg |
| Overseas investors still love London. (Uk real estate industry) | Business | John Slade, Richard Ellis |
| Oxford Molecular: designer appeal. (performance of Oxford Molecular examined) | Business | |
| Package holiday hell.(problems facing Airtours) | Business | |
| Paddling their own canoes. (predictions on world financial markets for 1995) | Business | |
| Pain now, gain later for British Airways.(British Airways strategy examined) | Business | |
| Paper runs out of puff.(performance of the paper industry) | Business | |
| Park pleasure.(Time Warner sells amusement park assets) | Business | |
| Pause or worse?(performance of UK stock market) | Business | |
| Paved with good intentions: ethical investments could help your bank balance as well as ease your conscience - many 'green' funds have above average performance records. What's more, polls show that most investors want to invest ethically. | Business | |
| Paying through the nose. (UK executive pay in the UK) | Business | |
| Pay policies prove controversial: boardroom salaries have attracted a lot of adverse publicity. Non-execs, who make up the bulk of remuneration committees, neee to beware of the pitfalls. | Business | |
| Pelican: attractive recipe.(performance of Pelican) | Business | |
| Pendragon: marque of success.(performance of Pendragon assessed) | Business | |
| PE - no sweat. (prices and earnings of securities) | Business | |
| Pension compensation fiasco.(compensation over mis-selling of pensions in the UK) | Business | |
| Pensioners freed to flex income muscles: having to lock into annuity rates when you drawyour pension has long been a bugbear for retired people. But new rules offer flexibility and thepotential for bigger pensions for investors who know what they're doing. | Business | |
| Pensioners gang up on Henderson. (performance of Henderson Administration assessed) | Business | |
| Pension fund capital.(UK venture capital and pension funds) | Business | Roger Brooke |
| Pension safety post-Maxwell.(includes related notes on the UK Pensions Act) | Business | |
| Pensions: charges horror. (impact of charges by providers of UK personal pension schemes) | Business | |
| People's Phone: upwardly mobile.(share offer planned by Peoples Phone) | Business | |
| Pep boost for convertibles. (UK convertible preference shares and personal equity plans) | Business | |
| Pep mortgages take centre stage: using the stock market to help repay your mortgage seems an excellent idea and the personal equity plan seems an ideal way to do it. The problems is to choose the right investment and the right plan. | Business | |
| Pep shows up endowments' flaws: the Pep has many natural advantages which make it ideal for repaying a mortgage or paying school fees for example. And you don't have to buy a pre-packaged plan. | Business | |
| Pepsico. (PepsiCo performance assessed) | Business | |
| Peps the DIY way. (personal equity plans for UK investors) | Business | |
| Phenomenal memory, uncertain future.(performance of Memory Corporation) | Business | |
| Philip Morris. | Business | |
| Pick-and-mix income from bond Peps. (self-select bond Peps for UK investors) | Business | |
| Picking your Pep manager.(UK personal equity plans) | Business | |
| Pill scare pumps up LIG's prospects.(performance of London International assessed) | Business | |
| Place your building society bets now.(investing in building societies in the hope of benefiting from a takeover) | Business | |
| Planning to reduce the taxman's inheritance.(includes related notes on estate spreading) | Business | |
| Playing footsie with Tessa.(UK tax exempt savings accounts) | Business | |
| Playing the discount.(UK investment trusts and discounts) | Business | Philip Middleton |
| Please look after this building society.(changes among UK savings and loan associations) | Business | |
| Please Mr Postman. (advantages of postal savings accounts) | Business | |
| Please Mr Postman.(UK postal savings accounts) | Business | |
| Pleasure should be the investor's main aim. (investing in art and antiques; survey on alternative investment) | Business | Ruth Corb |
| Plenty to go for.(performance of United Industries) | Business | |
| Plugging in to cheaper electricity: those business users who have chosen to switch suppliers have benefited hugely from the opening up of the 100KW market - a development which augurs well for the arrival of competition in the domestic market. | Business | |
| Poised for growth: development capital to refinance bank debt is becoming a thing of the past. Genuine high quality investment opportunities are increasing significantly. | Business | Mike Walker |
| Poland is a rising star.(Poland as an emerging market) | Business | Isabel Goiri |
| Political imperatives versus deficits.(political and economic context of the UK Nov 1995 Budget) | Business | |
| Political worries hold back gilts. | Business | |
| Portfolio management made easy: investment software packages may not be available in the high street but that doesn't mean they are only for 'techies' or ridiculously expensive. Thee are in fact programs to suit all levels of users and all pockets. | Business | |
| Pots of potential at Grosvenor Inns: the stock market is only slowly awakening to specialist pub retailer grosvenor Inns' potential but that's understable given its short track record and the fact that it's in the early stages of development. | Business | |
| Pots of potential at Groupe Chez Gerard.(performance of Groupe Chez Gerard) | Business | |
| PowerGen sparks up.(performance of PowerGen shares assessed) | Business | |
| Powerscreen sifts gems from the rubble.(performance of Powerscreen) | Business | |
| Power struggle.(divisions in Compagnie de Suez) | Business | |
| Pre-budget review.(impact of the UK budget on personal finance) | Business | Frank Akers-Douglas |
| Preference shares.(UK investment trust preference shares) | Business | Nigel Sidebottom |
| Premium problems.(Japanese stock market and economy) | Business | |
| Pressac ready for the big time: booming car production in the US and UK augurs well for dashboard component maker Pressac. Helped by recent acquisition McGavigan prospects for the next two years seem bright. | Business | |
| Pressure on fund fees.(commission charges for UK investors) | Business | |
| Price worries.(European economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Prism Leisure: spot the bargain.(performance of Prism Leisure) | Business | |
| Private clients must be extra vigilant. (how private clients with grievances against financial service organisations should begin complaining) | Business | |
| Privatization and foreign investment.(Romanian privatizations and investment from abroad) | Business | |
| Problem potatoes.(performance of Everest Foods assessed) | Business | |
| Procter and Gamble.(performance of Procter and Gamble assessed) | Business | |
| Productivity gains set to slow.(UK wage rises and productivity) | Business | |
| Professionals put their heads together. (accountants and lawyers in Nottingham, England) | Business | |
| Prolific hype. (changes in charges of UK unit trusts and Peps) | Business | |
| Promises of jam tomorrow.(investing for children; includes related article on tax planning and investments for children) | Business | |
| Property: are two years of solid performance enough to change trustees' attitudes to bricks and mortar? | Business | Malcolm Naish |
| Property: deep discounts available. (UK property market examined) | Business | |
| Property firms put their faith in globalisation. (UK real estate industry expands abroad) | Business | Tom Stevenson |
| Property.(real estate in South Africa) | Business | Les Weil |
| Prosperity is just around the corner.(Romania near to achieving prosperity) | Business | Peter Strafford |
| Protecting the family business: any plans drawn up to minimise IHT liability should be flexible, simple and relevant to the family circumstances. They should also adress the issue of what will happen to the client's business interests. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Peter Chadwick |
| Prowting.(performance of Prowting assessed) | Business | |
| Prudential: life force.(Prudential Corp develops new strategy) | Business | Philip Ryland |
| Prudential.(performance of Prudential assessed) | Business | |
| Pru ready for harsh new world. (performance of Prudential examined) | Business | |
| Put that in your pipe. (Chevron faces problems in Kazakhstan) | Business | |
| Putting paid to the paper chase: for potential sharemarket investors put off by all the paperowrk, nominee accounts are ideal. Others distrust the loss of control over investments such accounts entail. Then there are the extra costs.... | Business | Veronic McGrath |
| Putting your faith in the state.(performance of Fiscal Properties) | Business | |
| Quaker Oats.(performance of Quaker Oats assessed) | Business | |
| Quantitative techniques: active quantitative techniques are increasingly used for tactical asset allocation and suporters argue that, used with more traditional methods, quants can significantly improve results. (Pension Fund Management) | Business | Matthew Annable |
| Question mark over new pension product: Bradford & Bingley is the UK's biggest high street independent financial advisers. IFAs must offer best advice. But a new pension which the society has launched, while good value, is arguably far from the best available. | Business | |
| Queue forms for MGM. (Credit Lyonnais to sell MGM) | Business | |
| Radius.(performance of Radius assessed) | Business | |
| Ramco Energy.(performance of Ramco Energy assessed) | Business | |
| Rank: lottery loser.(performance of Rank assessed) | Business | |
| RAP: it's a steal.(performance of RAP examined) | Business | |
| Reality bites bosses' pay: the discredited pay policies of the privatised utilities could signal the end of the gravy train for UK plc. | Business | |
| Reckitt and Colman.(performance of Reckitt and Coleman assessed) | Business | |
| Recruiters still on a rising cycle: the recruitment industry's fortunes are closely tied to thebusiness cycle. But even in good times employers seem less and less willing to take onpermanent staff, so the strategy of the recruiters is changing. | Business | Andrew Hore |
| Regal Hotel: back from the brink.(performance of Regal Hotel assessed) | Business | |
| Regulatory rethink: a separate watchdog for each utility may end if calls for an overhaul ofthe regulatory system are heeded. | Business | Patricia. Jennings |
| Renault needs a supermodel.(performance of Renault assessed) | Business | |
| Renold: going up the gears.(performance of Renold) | Business | |
| Rentokil.(performance of Rentokil assessed) | Business | |
| Repelled by the risk but won over by the rewards. (UK government seeks to attract private investment for infrastucture projects) | Business | Phillip Hall, Matthew Houseley |
| Reporting and accounting for investment trusts. | Business | |
| Rerating overdue.(performance of MMT Computing assessed) | Business | |
| Residential property: landlords making a comeback. (UK real estate industry examined) | Business | David Lawson |
| Retail Manchester bucks national trend.(retail real estate investment in Manchester, England) | Business | Stewart Burdon-Bailey |
| Revenue set to tax discount deals: more and more investors are demanding financial advisersand brokers share their commissions on personal pensions, unit trusts, Peps and insurancepolicies. But now the taxman wants a cut. | Business | |
| Review of the year.(developments in financial markets in 1995) | Business | |
| Rewards may be high, but what about the risk?(risk levels involved with UK corporate bond personal equity plans) | Business | David Vriesenga, Jane Thomsen |
| Rich rewards for preference pickers.(investing in preference shares as part of UK bond personal equity plans) | Business | Julian Hepher |
| Riding the trust tiger: despite the bad press, unit trusts remain the most convenient way for non-professional investors to put money into share and bond markets. An with a modicum of research, the risks can be reduced. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | |
| Rigour now de rigeur.(French economy and financial markets) | Business | |
| Risk-averse investors shy away from bond commitment.(UK corporate bond personal equity plans examined) | Business | Sarah Barnett |
| Risk-free at a price.(Scottish Amicable offers low risk investment) | Business | |
| Risky as houses.(real estate as an investment in the UK) | Business | |
| Risky business choosing unit trusts: under proposed new rules, unit trust companies could be required to tell investors how risky their funds are. But competing commercial risk ratings' systems threaten to confuse or even mislead. | Business | |
| Ritz sale highlights Trafalgar debts.(problems facing Trafalgar House) | Business | |
| RMC builds on German opportunities. (performance of RMC) | Business | |
| RMC.(performance of BMC examined) | Business | |
| RM: top of the class.(performance of RM) | Business | |
| Roche: mixed week.(performance of Roche) | Business | |
| Roll call for 21st century blockbusters.(drug developments in the UK) | Business | |
| Rolls Royce.(performance of Rolls Royce assessed) | Business | |
| Romania starts to catch up.(Romanian economy recovers) | Business | |
| R-R ahead of Allinson OK. (performance of Rolls-Royce assessed) | Business | |
| R-R ready to roll.(performance of Rolls-Royce share price) | Business | |
| RTZ.(performance of R.T.Z. Corp assessed) | Business | |
| Rueful reflections on the Indian rope-trick.(India as an emerging market) | Business | |
| Rugby: window of opportunity.(performance of Rugby) | Business | |
| Rushing for the exit. (volatility affecting commodity markets) | Business | |
| Rutland Trust: earnings ahoy.(performance of Rutland Trust assessed) | Business | |
| Sabina Product.(profile of Sabina Product) | Business | |
| Safety first.(investors compensation in the UK) | Business | |
| Sage.(performance of Sage) | Business | |
| Sanderson Bramall Motor.(performance of Sanderson Bramall Motor assessed) | Business | |
| Satisfaction not guaranteed. (problems related to guaranteed stock market investments in the UK; includes related notes giving an example) | Business | |
| Savings rates start to slide.(UK savings and loan associations reduce rates for savers) | Business | |
| SBC Communications.(profile of SBC Communications) | Business | |
| SBJ adds voice to broking blues: intense rivalry between underwriters is hitting insurance brokers' income. While not as exposed as some. Steel Burrill Jones's business faces a downturn and it has a few hefty bills to pay. the shares look vulnerable. | Business | |
| Schroder: leader of the pack, Barings has ben swallowed up, SG Warburg has had to call in Swiss Bank Corporation, and Hambros continues to concoct new ways of losing money. But, in this sea of troubles, Schroder stands out like a rock. | Business | |
| Schroder offers dull diversity.(includes related notes on UK mutual funds) | Business | |
| Scotch off the rocks.(performance of Burn Stewart assessed) | Business | |
| Scottish and Newcastle.(performance of Scottish and Newcastle) | Business | |
| Seagram.(profile of Seagram) | Business | |
| Search continues for illiquidity solution. (illiquidity in real estate investment) | Business | Rupert Clarke |
| Sears.(performance of Sears assessed) | Business | |
| Second gear.(UK transporation industry examined) | Business | |
| Second-hand, not second-best.(second-hand endowment policies for UKinvestors) | Business | |
| Second wind.(US economy and share prices) | Business | |
| Sectors to watch.(performance mainland European shares in 1st half 1995) | Business | |
| Securing a presence.(performance of Camlock Systems) | Business | |
| Security in question.(performance of De La Rue assessed) | Business | |
| Senior Engineering: steaming up.(performance of Senior Engineering assessed) | Business | |
| Sentiment cools but India's prospects are good. (survey on emerging markets) | Business | Shekhar Das |
| Setting up a charitable trust.(setting up a trust in the UK) | Business | John (British inventor) Harrison |
| Set to recover.(performance of Israeli stock market) | Business | |
| Severn Trent's fundamental appeal: Severn Trent offers an attractive combination of a high yield, strong dividend cover and enormous financial strength. They outweigh the political risks. | Business | |
| SG Warburg: backing out of Eurobonds. (SG Warburg sheds jobs and leaves Eurobond markets) | Business | |
| Shake-out in US banks. | Business | |
| Share and share alike keeps wealth flowing: North West Water is to share its surplus profitswith customers and shareholders. Investors should be pleased that the water industry is keen toavoid the trap electricity companies fell into. | Business | Sameena Ahmad |
| Share and share not alike for CGT.(UK capital gains tax on shares; includes related glossary and examples) | Business | |
| Share dealing on the net.(includes related notes on electronic share dealing) | Business | |
| Share options: not just for fat cats. (employee stock-option plans) | Business | |
| Shares for fat cats and kittens.(taxation of share option schemes and the UK Nov 1995 Budget; includes related notes on share option schemes) | Business | |
| Share swaps hit by price rises: price wars in financial services are not stopping investment managers from upping charges. Share exchange deals, a little-known wheeze which alows individuals to sell investments cheaply, are the latest victim. | Business | |
| Shell Transport.(performance of Shell Transport assessed) | Business | |
| Shepherd Neame: family jewel.(performance of Shepherd Neame) | Business | |
| Sheriff: rounding 'em up. (performance of Sheriff examined) | Business | |
| Shining the family silver.(performance of Frank G Gates) | Business | |
| Ship with no rudder.(problems facing Suez) | Business | |
| Shock to Railtrack.(planned privatization of Railtrack) | Business | |
| Shop around to benefit from gas glut: a massive demand/supply imbalance means that industrial and commercial users are benefiting from falling prices. | Business | |
| Shopkeepers' woes spur new profit pessimism. (performance of UK shares) | Business | Simon Inness |
| Shorco: time to be contrary.(performance of Shorco assessed) | Business | |
| Sid goes European.(Mercury European Privatization trust) | Business | |
| Siebe.(performance of Siebe assessed) | Business | |
| Silly walks go nowhere.(finding patterns in share price movements) | Business | |
| Slick work puts a tiger in EOG's tank.(performance of Edinburgh Oil and Gas assessed) | Business | |
| Slow recovery for property: there are tentative signs that the property market may be on the mend. Recovery may start to come through in the second half of this year. | Business | |
| Smaller companies roller coaster fun: investing in smaller companies can be rewarding but private investors must watch out for the pitfalls. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Fiona Orford-Williams |
| Small gains to many.(UK tax changes affecting savings in the Nov 1995 Budget) | Business | |
| Smithkline Beecham confounds the doubters: while Glaxo and Wellcome hog the limelight, SmithKline Beecham (SB) is quietly demonstrating that there is life after a major patent expiry. | Business | |
| Smithkline Beecham. (performance of SmithKline Beecham examined) | Business | |
| Societies offer sweeteners to savers.(UK savings and loan associations seek to retain savers) | Business | |
| Societies sit tight. (UK building societies oppose dividends for members) | Business | |
| Something's stirring in the undergrowth.(impact of active private shareholders) | Business | |
| Sonic progress. (performance of Copyright Promotions examined) | Business | |
| South Africa: deregulation in the stock exchange. | Business | Simon Segal |
| South Africa emerges onto the world stage.(performance of South African economy) | Business | |
| South east Asia: further to fall? (performance of stock markets in South-East Asia in 1995) | Business | |
| Spending growth set to recover.(UK consumer spending) | Business | |
| Sphinx links bodes well.(performance of Lynx Holdings) | Business | |
| Spotlight on stockbroker safety.(safety of investments with UK stockbrokers; includes related notes on nominee accounts) | Business | |
| Stakis.(performance of Stakis assessed) | Business | |
| Stamping out the charity cowboys.(charity regulation in Scotland) | Business | Lucy Pratt |
| Standing at the crossroads: Wall Street's long-running bull market has picked up speed this year, after temporarily stalling in 1994. But now there are major question marks over the extended economic upswing which has powered the bull market. | Business | Neil Kerr |
| Statement of recommended practice.(financial management of UK charities) | Business | Moores Rowland |
| Staying ahead.(performance of Leeds Group assessed) | Business | |
| Steel appeal.(performance of British Steel shares) | Business | |
| Steel: four against two. (British Steel) | Business | |
| Steel rolling.(planned provatization of Usinor Sacilor) | Business | |
| Still buyers for M and S.(performance and share price of Marks and Spencer assessed) | Business | |
| Still feeling handicapped.(problems facing the UK gambling industry) | Business | |
| Still in bud. (performance of Flying Flowers assessed) | Business | |
| Still vulnerable to shocks. (UK financial markets) | Business | |
| St Ives.(performance of St Ives examined) | Business | |
| Storing up trouble.(Kaufhof and Asko merge) | Business | |
| Stumbling block.(Morgan Stanley's views on the French economy and stock market) | Business | |
| Stuning performance - and what else?: pension funds are becoming increasingly demanding. They want strong performance from a defined set of assets over long periods of time. An they want to know just how that performance has been achieved. (Fund Management) | Business | Jonathan Guthrie |
| Subterranean.(underlying trends in Wall Street) | Business | |
| Suit yourself - with a made-to-measure Pep.(customized corporate bond personal equity plans for UK investors) | Business | Fred Robinson |
| Sunny prospects.(performance of VTR assessed) | Business | |
| Surfing the Internet. (performance of Unipalm assessed) | Business | |
| Surfing the net: surfing the net: user jargon for cruising down the information superhighway, the Internet. Here's the best way to get on it and what you'll find when your're there. | Business | Richard Arundel |
| Surging ahead: alternative investment market. | Business | |
| Surplus aids pensions bill: nobody wants to pay the bill, put at up to 3bn pounds sterling, torefund victims of pension mis-selling - least of all the life insurers. | Business | Jean Eaglesham |
| Swalec top of the shopping list. (performance of South Wales Electricity examined) | Business | |
| Sweeping the board.(pay and conditions for independent directors in the UK) | Business | Peter Brown |
| Sweet deal.(performance of Cadbury Schweppes assessed) | Business | |
| Sweet talking at Tate & Lyle: despite impressive interim results, Tate & Lyle's shares fell. The market is concerned that booming profits from high fructose corn syrup will be flattened as new US capacity comes on stream. We don't think they will. | Business | |
| Swimming in pooled investments: Collective investments are the smaller investor's route to the stock market - but which fund should you go for? | Business | |
| Swiss Bank Corporation.(profile of Swiss Bank Corporation) | Business | |
| Switzerland: legal lolly. (dispute between Union Bank of Switzerland and BK Vision) | Business | |
| Sydney C Banks: grain molehills.(performance of Sydney C Banks) | Business | |
| Taken into safe custody.(regulation of UK stock market) | Business | |
| Takeovers in 1995: City awash with cash.(takeovers in the UK) | Business | |
| Takeover talk.(control of insider trading in the UK) | Business | |
| Taking a fixed interest in building societies.(permanent interest bearing shares (Pibs) as investment vehicles; includes related article on pricing these Pibs) | Business | |
| Taking positions across the 3500 divide.(forecasts for UK share prices) | Business | |
| Taking the shots. (impact of problems of Mexican stock market) | Business | |
| Talking Tessas: Tessas can offer an attractive risk-free tax shelter for cash - but some are much more attractive than others. | Business | |
| Tap into the dealing revolution.(on-line dealing and information services for investors in the UK) | Business | Rosemary Carr |
| Taunton Cider.(performance of Taunton Cider assessed) | Business | |
| Tax-free pioneers should be patient.(UK venture capital trusts) | Business | |
| Taxing problems for investors. (tax rules on government securities and other types of bonds in the UK) | Business | |
| Taxing time for investors.(tax advice for UK investors) | Business | |
| Taxing times.(taxation of charities in the UK) | Business | Martin Israel |
| Tax worries.(impact of tax changes on the market for UK government securities) | Business | |
| Tele-sales go down well. (privatisation of Telefonica, Spain) | Business | |
| TeleWest: wrong numbers.(performance of TeleWest Communications assessed) | Business | |
| Temporary price lull.(UK inflation) | Business | |
| Tenant trouble.(performance of Cafe Inns) | Business | |
| Tenneco.(performance of Tenneco assessed) | Business | |
| Tequila sunset at Allied.(performance of Allied Domecq assessed) | Business | |
| Tesco eyed at half-time.(performance of Tesco assessed) | Business | |
| Tesco has the edge. (performance of Tesco examined ) | Business | |
| Tessa twos set for take-off.(UK tax exempt savings plans; includes related notes on regulations relating to such plans) | Business | |
| Texaco. | Business | |
| The American way.(investing in US unit trusts) | Business | |
| The answer lies in the stocks.(performance of the UK economy in 1996) | Business | |
| The art market: contemporary masters. (investors still interested in art) | Business | |
| The art market: Pable Picasso. (performance of works by Picasso as an investment) | Business | |
| The art market: photography.(performance of photography as aninvestment) | Business | |
| The AVC of pensions.(investing in pensions in the UK) | Business | |
| The best and worst unit trust managers.(UK unit trust managers examined; includes related glossary and notes on unit trusts) | Business | |
| The best endowed.(buying second hand endowment policies through trusts) | Business | |
| The boom days have passed: commodities were an extremely profitable area for speculators in 1994. This year big profits have been hard to come by as many commodoties have fallen back from their highs. | Business | |
| The Casket case.(performance of Casket assessed) | Business | |
| The challenge of the free market.(Portugal restructuresindustry) | Business | |
| The City snubs Sid.(small investors and the UK stock exchange) | Business | Edmond Jackson |
| The compensation lottery.(compensation for depositors with UK banks) | Business | |
| The crazy world of cyber-capitalism.(impact of the Internet on investing) | Business | Stephen Eckett |
| The cyberspace contacts book.(financial services information using the Internet) | Business | Stephen Eckett |
| The decline and fall of the private investor.(problems facing private investors in the UK) | Business | Jane Eaglesham |
| The dilutive impact of warrants.(UK investment trusts and free warrants) | Business | Peter Walls |
| The Dixon difference: if it takes a force of nature to make a motor dealership pay, Paul Dixon is your man. And Dixon Motors is the proof he knows his business. | Business | |
| The dog that hasn't barked - yet.(UK and US exchange rates) | Business | |
| The dollar again.(US economy and stock market) | Business | |
| The dubious legacy of Mr Maxwell.(UK Pensions Act; includes related notes on the Act) | Business | |
| The ethical choice.(ethical investment funds) | Business | |
| The fewer the frills, the higher the rates: some accounts sacrifice current acount charateristics but make up for it by offering higher rates of interest. | Business | Amanda Jarvis |
| The fine art of the deal.(art swaps system examined) | Business | Roger Stiles |
| The flexible approach: self-select Peps: in a Self-Select Pep the investor can run his own portfolio - the plan manager provides the stockbroking service, with or without advice, as appropriate. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Fred Robinson |
| The Fred Karno roll call.(ironic view of awards for UK companies' activities) | Business | |
| The Greenbury debate: the proposals in the Greenbury report were - with one notable exception - broadly welcomed. The debate is unlikely to end there, however. | Business | David Porter, Adrina Bowden |
| The growl of the bear. (major financial markets) | Business | |
| The icing on the cake: single company Peps may not have all that much to offer the smaller investor. But their tax and cost advantages could be a welcome bonus to the larger portfolio. | Business | |
| The ins and outs of executive recruitment.(executive recruitment firms in the UK) | Business | Philip Schofield |
| The joys of inflation.(UK food retailing examined) | Business | |
| The luck of the draw.(gambling and investment in the UK) | Business | |
| The man who did rather well over there.(role of Gordon White in Hanson) | Business | Jim Slater |
| The missing billions.(UK tax revenue lower than forecast) | Business | |
| The missing inflation numbers.(measuring inflation in the UK) | Business | |
| The new South Africa. | Business | Dennis Kiley |
| The office that fits into your briefcase.(developments in mobile officetechnology) | Business | Paul O' Rourke |
| The only way is down for British Steel.(performance of British Steel assessed) | Business | |
| The rental gap narrows.(business locations and rental values in London and elsewhere in the UK) | Business | Peter Chapman, Ian Gleeson |
| The retirement income benefits of ill-health.(cheaper annuities for UK buyers with health problems) | Business | |
| The rewards of simplicity.(investment practices of a Cambridge University college, England) | Business | |
| The smell of the greasepaint....(UK Nov 1995 Budget; includes related notes on what the Budget should include) | Business | |
| The state of your pension: the state earnings related pension scheme (Serps) won't enable you to retire to the Caribbean. But deciding whether to stay in it or not could still have a big effect on the size of your retirement income. | Business | |
| The traumas of Pep transfers.(advice for UK investors seeking to transfer personal equity plans) | Business | |
| The trusting approach to tax.(using trusts to reduce tax bills; includes related glossary) | Business | |
| The truth behind Esops' fables.(employee share ownership schemes in the UK; includes related article setting out basic characteristics of these schemes) | Business | |
| The unthinkable US default.(US debt and budget deficit) | Business | |
| The ups and downs of escalator bonds: escalator bonds are in vogue but investors should treat the advertised high interest rates with caution. | Business | |
| The urge to merge.(mergers in the Portuguese banking industry; includes related notes on theCaixa Geral de Depositos) | Business | |
| The virtues of privatization.(privatization inPortugal) | Business | |
| The way ahead for NHS trust funds: staff at NHS trusts have an arduous and long overdue task ahead of them: to review and rationalise the charities and administer them in line with charity law. (Charity Fund Management) | Business | Russell Wright |
| The well advised will inherit most. (UK inheritance tax; includes related notes giving example and information on gifts) | Business | |
| The year of interest rate surprises.(UK stock market and interest rates) | Business | |
| The year that wasn't.(UK real estate industry examined) | Business | Michael Brett |
| Third-hand policies.(investing in second hand endowment policies) | Business | |
| Thorn EMI.(performance of Thorn EMI) | Business | |
| Thorntons: bittersweet.(performance of Thorntons assessed) | Business | |
| Three cheers for UK plc.(reactions to UK Nov 1995 Budget) | Business | |
| Through the keyhole.(performance of Gander assessed) | Business | |
| Thumbs up for Glaxo.(Performance of Glaxo assessed) | Business | |
| Tibbett and Britten.(performance of Tibbett and Britten assessed) | Business | |
| Tiger cubs should be handled with care: this year's recovery in Asian markets is prompting fund managers to renew their promotion of Asian smaller companies as a high-growth investment - but interested investors should tread warily. | Business | |
| Tightening of the French vice.(French economy and financial markets) | Business | |
| Tightening the global monetary belt. (movements on the major financialmarkets) | Business | |
| TI Group.(performance of TI Group assessed) | Business | |
| Time to get loaded.(Tom Cobleigh and Enterprise Inns come to UK stock market) | Business | |
| Time to retune. (performance of Scottish Radio examined) | Business | |
| Time to say goodby to C and G?(benefits and drawbacks of staying with the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society) | Business | |
| Time Warner. (performance of Time Warner examined) | Business | |
| TLS drives profits ahead.(performance of TLS assessed) | Business | |
| Toad: toys for boys.(performance of Toad) | Business | |
| To cut or not?(german interest rates may fall) | Business | |
| Tokyo: momentum.(Kleinwort Benson forecasts for Tokyo stock market) | Business | |
| Tomkinsons: bleak outlook(performance of Tomkinsons assessed) | Business | |
| Too high an income may erode your capital: poor rates of interest in recent years have leftmany investors seeking an alternative to the deposit account. | Business | Anthony Bailey |
| Too much resting on a housing habit.(performance of Abbey National) | Business | |
| Too sanguine at Standard Chartered: Standard Chartered is taking a very optimistic view of the future of Hong Kong. If it's wrong, it could be expensive. | Business | |
| Top houses stay ahead in perilous times: 1994 was a disappointing year for most fund managers with lacklusture performances from equities and bonds. It was also a year during which the big boys tightened their iron-like grip on the market. (Fund Management) | Business | Mark Battersby |
| Tough battle for AAH: German wholesaler Gehe's move on AAH could be hard for the group to resist. | Business | |
| Tough time for estate agents.(UK estate agents face difficulties) | Business | Anne Steadman |
| Tough times ahead for the banks. (problems faced by UK banking industry) | Business | |
| Tough times ahead.(UK food retailers under pressure) | Business | |
| Tourism. | Business | David Pincus |
| Tourism.(Romanian tourist industry) | Business | |
| Toy Options are back in the money.(performance of Toy Options) | Business | |
| Trafalgar House.(performance of Trafalgar House) | Business | |
| Transport.(Romanian transportation) | Business | |
| Trinity Holdings.(performance of Trinity Holdings examined) | Business | |
| Troubled enterprise.(UK venture capital trusts examined) | Business | |
| Trusting the young ones.(investing for children; includes related article on choices available to investors) | Business | |
| Trusts on the line: have the unit trusts we bought last year stood the test of time? | Business | |
| Turbulence ahead.(performance of BAA shares assessed) | Business | |
| UK: back the big boys.(share price performance of large UK companies assessed by UBS) | Business | |
| UK budget: sound advice.(advice from the Confederation of British Industry to the UK government on the Nov 1995 budget) | Business | |
| UK consumer cycle: on the turn. (forecast for UK consumer spending in 1995 from BZW) | Business | |
| UK debut for AT and T.(telecoms companies seek to enter European telecoms market) | Business | |
| UK economy: consumer bet.(UK consumer spending in 1995) | Business | |
| UK economy: happy landings.(soft landing possible for British economy) | Business | |
| UK economy: positive outlook.(UK economy examined) | Business | |
| UK economy: sharp slowdown. | Business | |
| UK equities: 4000 but...(Goldman Sachs view of UK economy and share prices) | Business | |
| UK equities: a chill in the air.(performance of UK stock market) | Business | |
| UK equities: a disconsolate mood. (performance of UK equities) | Business | |
| UK equities: a positive outlook.(performance of UK equities) | Business | |
| UK equities: budget showdown.(impact of UK Nov 1995 Budget on financial markets) | Business | |
| UK equities: correctly priced.(views of ABN AMRO Hoare Govett on the UK stock exchange) | Business | |
| UK equities: fully valued.(performance of UK share prices) | Business | |
| UK equities: further to go.(performance of UK equities) | Business | |
| UK equities: inflation hits shares. (impact of inflation on the value of UKequities) | Business | |
| UK equities: part two.(performance of UK equities assessed by BZW) | Business | |
| UK equities: pensive peaks.(performance of the UK stock market in 1995 and 1996) | Business | |
| UK equities: struggling.(forecasts for UK equities from Kleinwort Benson) | Business | |
| UK gilts: '93 revisited.(UK government securities) | Business | |
| UK gilts: going nowhere. (performance of UK government securities) | Business | |
| UK housing: policy options.(UK housing market) | Business | |
| UK housing: relief in sight.(performance of UK housing market) | Business | |
| UK inflation: question marks. | Business | |
| UK interest rates: a small cut.(UK interest rates could be reduced argues Goldman Sachs) | Business | |
| UK interest rates: cuts coming.(HSBC Markets forecast on UK interest rates) | Business | |
| UK interest rates: over to Ken.(UK interest rate policy and fiscal policy) | Business | |
| UK interest rates: the unthinkable. (views of HSBC Greenwell on UK interest rate trends) | Business | |
| UK: kicking the habit.(problems related to high level of consumption in the UKeconomy) | Business | |
| UK minimum wage: setting the level. (impact of plans of Labor Party to bring in minimum wage in the UK) | Business | |
| UK money supply: worrisome?(concern over UK money supply) | Business | |
| UK: nearing the peak.(UK output prices near peak) | Business | |
| UK: on the way.(UK economy and interest rate policy) | Business | |
| UK retail sector: margin squeeze. (forecast for UK retail industry in 1995 from Greenwell) | Business | |
| UK stock market: upside potential. (forecast for performance of UK stock market for 1995 from Goldman Sachs) | Business | |
| UK technology. | Business | |
| UK: the bulls' failure.(UK stock exchange assessed by Nomura) | Business | |
| Un autre politique.(French economic policy) | Business | |
| Uncertain outlook at Cornwell Parker: Cornwell Parker 'A' shares have fallen by three quarters since their 1992 peak. Restoring the market's confidence is the critical task that is now facing management. | Business | |
| Under-endowed - needs pepping up: insurers want endowment policies made Pepable. But this latest lobbying should just alert investors to endowments' various shortcomings compared with their Pep competitors. | Business | |
| Unique bonds guide.(buying corporate bonds as part of a personal equity plan; includes related glossary) | Business | |
| Unique guide to pepable bonds.(qualifying bonds for UK personal equity plans; includes related glossary) | Business | |
| United Biscuits.(performance of United Biscuits assessed) | Business | |
| United Biscuits.(performance of United Biscuits assessed) | Business | |
| United Friendly gets hands on its assets. (United Friendly can use surplus assets) | Business | |
| United News and Media.(performance of United News and Media examined) | Business | |
| Unit trust move to stop new bond Pep rip-offs: the new corporate bond Peps will be heavilypromoted as high interest paying, secure investments. But some in the unit trust industry arelooking at ways of making clearer the risks to capital. | Business | |
| Unit trust performance: cowed tigers. (performance of UK unit trusts investing in the Far East) | Business | |
| Unit trusts disappoint short-term investors: 1994 may not have been a good year for unit trust returns but investors should remember that good things - usually - come to those who wait. | Business | |
| Unit trusts for Japan, not investment trusts. | Business | |
| Unrealistic expectations. (UK consumer spending as seen by Robert Fleming Securities) | Business | |
| Unwarranted low prices.(investment trust warrants) | Business | |
| Unwelcome attentions.(performance of Wickes assessed) | Business | |
| UPF: German leap.(performance of UPF) | Business | |
| Upside risks. (UK inflation) | Business | |
| Upturn in pulp is no fiction. (Swedish pulp and paper makers return to profitability) (Sweden) | Business | Christopher Brown-Hume |
| Upwardly mobile.(telecommunications equipment for UK users) | Business | PaulO' Rourke |
| US: behind the curve. (performance of financial markets in the US in 1995) | Business | |
| US: best of the big.(performance of Wall Street) | Business | |
| US: budget blow.(US budget agreement) | Business | |
| US dollar: faltering.(views of Kleinwort Benson on the performance of the US dollar) | Business | |
| US dollar: limited strength.(performance of the US dollar assessed by PaineWebber) | Business | |
| US dollar: rally postponed. | Business | |
| US economy: blind landing.(slowdown of US economic growth) | Business | |
| US growing pains for ICI. | Business | |
| US growth conundrum.(US economic growth and stock markets) | Business | |
| US: inflation qualms. | Business | |
| US interest rates: whoops of joy.(US interest rates lowered) | Business | |
| US: nice surprise.(US inflation figures examined by Kleinwort Benson) | Business | |
| US: prolonged cycle.(US business cycle assessed by Morgan Stanley) | Business | |
| Utility Cable: cable connecting.(peformance of Utility Cableassessed) | Business | |
| Vardon: mass attractions. (performance of Vardon assessed) | Business | |
| Vardon.(performance of Vardon assessed) | Business | |
| Vega: MoD hat trick. (performance of Vega examined ) | Business | |
| Venture capital giant launches new-style Pep.(UK tax changes lead to corporate bond personal equity plans) | Business | |
| Venture capital trusts.(UK venture capital trusts examined) | Business | Richard Twydell |
| Verity: trumpet major.(performance of Verity assessed) | Business | |
| Vested interest of 20%.(UK pension investments) | Business | |
| VIAG.(performance of Viag assessed) | Business | |
| Vibroplant.(performance of Vibroplant assessed) | Business | |
| Vintage investments.(wine as an investment) | Business | |
| Vosper Thornycroft.(performance of Vosper Thornycroft) | Business | |
| Votes for homes.(performance of Beazer Homes assessed) | Business | |
| VSEL: action stations.(bid for VSEL by GEC and BritishAerospace) | Business | |
| Wagon Industrial: hit the growth trail.(performance of Wagon Industrial assessed) | Business | |
| Wait for it.(world economic growth in 1995) | Business | |
| Wall Street: a long cycle.(performance of Wall Street in 1995) | Business | |
| Wall Street: cutting question.(US interest rate policy) | Business | |
| Wall Street: earnings fears.(US corporate earnings and share prices) | Business | |
| Wall Street: earnings shock.(US earnings growth and share prices) | Business | |
| Wall Street: looking to bonds.(US stock and bond markets) | Business | |
| Wall Street: rate cut relief.(performance of US equities) | Business | |
| Wall Street: selling delayed.(impact of expectations of tax changes on share prices) | Business | |
| Wall Street: squeezed dry.(performance of Wall Street) | Business | |
| Wall Street: tech tensions.(performance of US high-tech shares) | Business | |
| Warning bells.(Packard Bell denies rumors relating to the company's finances) | Business | |
| Warning! High income ahead. (problems related to investments offering high incomes; includes related notes giving an example) | Business | |
| Warning on bond Pep charges. (charges made by UK funds; includes related article on investor protection) | Business | |
| Washing down the pipelines.(performance of British Fittings assessed) | Business | |
| Wassall.(performance of Wassall assessed) | Business | |
| Watchdog goes soft on commission.(charges for UK mutual funds; includes related notes on ways to reduce charges) | Business | |
| Watching BA on its cycle.(performance of British Airways shares) | Business | |
| Ways out of the Grid.(selling shares in the National Grid) | Business | |
| Wellman: far to go.(performance of Wellman assessed) | Business | |
| Wells Fargo bid ambushed.(Wells Fargo fails to acquire First Interstate) | Business | |
| Wembley's cup of woe: some people thin it may be all over. Unless a deal to restructureWembley's huge debts is finalised soon, the only fans running on the famous pitch could be thedemolition men. | Business | |
| Wescol: alive and kicking.(performance of Wescol assessed) | Business | |
| Wessex Water. (performance of Wessex Water examined) | Business | |
| Westminster Health Care.(performance of Westminster Health Care assessed) | Business | |
| What Labour stands for. (economic policy of UK Labor Party; includes related notes giving comments from the UK financial services industry) | Business | |
| What outcome for your income: when buying an annuity, should you maximise the income you get on day one or ensure that your income increases year on year? Pay for a guarantee or not? | Business | |
| What's in a bond.(types of investor likely to benefit from corporate bond personal equity plans) | Business | Michael Dyson |
| What's the catch?: mortgage lenders are desparate to win new customers. But locking into one of the all too tempting rates on offer carries its own risks. | Business | |
| What the charts are telling us now. (interpreting charts as a guide to investment) | Business | |
| What to look out for.(the need to study details when choosing a personal equity plan) | Business | Philip Warland |
| What will become of your pension?: the pensions world is undergoing dramatic change. | Business | |
| When big ceases to be best.(UK bonds and securities) | Business | |
| When goodbyes matter.(investment management of unit trusts) | Business | |
| When investors eyes are smiling.(investing in Ireland through an investment trust) | Business | |
| When it pays to be outward-looking. (outsourcing in the UK) | Business | David Blacklock |
| When it's politic not to give: Whitbread and Glaxo-Wellcome are but the latest companies to stop funding the Conservatives. Many shareholder feel such board diktats are not enough - they want a say in deciding how companies make political donations. | Business | Patrick. Tooher |
| When the building society doesn't make sense: there comes a point for all investors - young and old - at which it makes sense to venture out of the building society and into equity Peps. | Business | |
| When your account dies. (problems related to investors using discontinued savings accounts; includes related notes giving an example) | Business | |
| When your pension goes wrong: pensions seem to have been swamped in scandal in recent years. How are they regulated? And what do you do if things go wrong? | Business | |
| Where is it then?(UK interest rates may fall) | Business | |
| Where there's a will, thee's a way round IHT: writing a will provides an ideal opportunity to carry out some very effective but inexpensive inheritance tax planning. (Personal Financial Planning) | Business | Ann Duchart, Matthew Wrigley |
| Who profits? (endowment policies) | Business | |
| WH Smith: bad news all round.(problems facing WH Smith) | Business | |
| Wickes.(performance of Wickes assessed) | Business | |
| Willis Corroon.(performance of Willis Corroon) | Business | |
| Willis Corroon.(performance of Willis Corroon assessed) | Business | |
| Will the US dive in 1995. (performance of US stock market in 1995) | Business | |
| Wilson Bowden.(performance of Wilson Bowden assessed) | Business | |
| Window on the world of investment.(using investment software) | Business | |
| Windows boxed in. (world computer market) | Business | |
| With-profits - but the profits aren't great.(UK insurance companies' with-profits bonds) | Business | |
| World of Leather: not sitting pretty.(performance of World of Leather assessed) | Business | |
| Worlds apart.(bid for Littlewoods by Iceland and N Brown) | Business | |
| WPP.(performance of WPP assessed) | Business | |
| WSP builds for a brighter future: WSP is a solid, well-managed group with a bright future. Its strength is demonstrated by the fact that despite being a provider of services to the construction industries, it stayed in profit throughout the recession. | Business | |
| Wyevale Garden Centres.(performance of Wyevale Garden Centres assessed) | Business | |
| Yen bears.(Goldman Sachs assesses the US dollar and Japanese yen) | Business | |
| Yorkshire's self-defence.(Yorkshire Electricity seeks to fend off bids) | Business | Alexander Hore |
| You want to be with someone else: as the Pep buying season gets into its swing, some big name managers are weighing in with new funds - but investors may decide that size isn't everything. | Business | |
| Yule Catto.(performance of Yule Catto examined) | Business | |
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