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And after another positive meeting with its management, they have started a new position in Judges Scientific.įor UK Select, Ed and Ambrose thought well of a presentation by 888. They have been adding to holdings where they feel that weak share prices do not reflect long-term prospects – despite short-term challenges in each case: Mears, XP Power and Bakkavor. Mark Niznik and William Tamworth manage UK Smaller Companies. The disparity between high-quality companies and others, as measured by relative multiples, is approaching the peak of the ‘Nifty Fifty’ boom of the 1970s. Momentum is winning all awards and contrarian investing is profoundly unpopular. It is of course futile to speculate about when this re-rating might come – but it is long overdue. It would not be a Lyttony to assume that constant upgrades to forecasts should cause the fund’s p/e to move from 67% to 100% of the market’s. By definition, investors expect Philip’s stocks to deliver sub-market growth. Of European Growth, Philip Wolstencroft notes a discount: the fund’s prospective p/e is 8.9x vs the market’s 14x. “The heather-encrusted Headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a crowded pub, hunched precariously over the moors.” We like to think that, instead, we pick stocks in: Plainer prose …

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It’s the stuff of fantasy and fiction, full worthy of The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which honours (deliberately) dreadful writing. But on its own, the Fed’s imminent shift should raise that to 9.6%. Liquidity from the big five stands at 8.6% of global GDP, vs an average of 10.4% since the crisis.

A level of 3,000 on the S&P 500 suggests – indeed assumes – that up to $1.7 trillion (£1.36 trillion) more will be injected by the biggest central banks – the Fed, ECB, Bank of England, People’s Bank of China and Bank of Japan. Meanwhile the Fed has put a cut, not a rise, the week after next and under Christine Lagarde the ECB looks likely to be more accommodating than that other wunderkind, Airbnb. It is now a hundred years since the First Austrian Republic rose from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire (with the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.) Who knows what the world will look like when Austria’s recent (and over-subscribed) 100-year bond matures? Private equity firms have effected 212 “take-private” transactions so far this year alone, surpassing the previous high of 192 in 2007: the alchemy of central bankers means interest rates at record-lows, and that means debt-fuelled buy-outs. Now Britons’ debt outstanding on credit cards is £72.9 billion, a rise of 38% since 2009. Yet of that crisis, excessive debt cause was. A level of 3,000 on the S&P 500 suggests – indeed assumes – that up to $1.7 trillion (£1.36 trillion) more will be injected by the biggest central banks. These and a few other stocks have proved the acme of the bulls, more than restoring what was lost in 2008/9. On subscribers shed, Netflix fell by over 10% yesterday, taking $16.3 billion off its capitalisation. Researchers are attempting to determine how long it will take for the dead to outnumber the living on Facebook. What is certain is that cocaine is ubiquitous, and ketamine widespread, among shrimp in the rivers of Suffolk – the county in which a woodpecker is known as a yaffle. As the Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai (1898 – 1976) said, when asked for his view of the importance of the French Revolution (of 1789): “It is too soon to say.” Investors are wondering whether, and some hoping that, such numbers show signs of stabilisation amid the war of trade.