Hints and tips:
...Lex discerned a subtler form of opportunism in quarterly numbers from J Sainsbury this week. The grocer credited rising market share to the success of its Nectar loyalty card....
...Payments company Visa, for example, had received a two for “E” and “S” and a three for “G”....
...Apply P&G’s trailing multiple and the business could be worth as much as $49bn. That would be a stretch. The US equity capital markets are in a deep freeze....
...The biggest offender I could find is the L&G Tracker Trust CTF, which launched in 1999 and in 2023 still has an eye-watering ongoing charge of 1.56 per cent for the £1.3bn invested in the fund....
...Fund manager M&G is to close its £565mn property fund following sustained outflows by UK retail investors looking to get out of the ailing real estate market....
...For example, Dominic Rowles, an ESG analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, recommends a global tracker fund like the L&G Future World ESG Developed Index or, as a more conservative option, the BNY Mellon Sustainable...
...The L&G and Invesco funds both take an equal weight approach — something that divides opinion among fund analysts....
...The best-performing battery metal exchange-traded fund available to UK investors this week was the L&G Battery Value-Chain ETF, a mix of miners and battery manufacturers that had annualised returns in the...
...Also: Magic sales nearly doubled over the course of the pandemic and secondary market prices skyrocketed (e.g., Reserved List cards more than tripled)....
...He cited a campaign, backed by L&G, to persuade J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, to introduce a “real living wage” for all workers....
...The Stories She Wears is a six-month programme focusing on teaching practical techniques in local styles, upcycled fashion, traditional textile design and financial literacy. pradagroup.com; unfpa.org G...
...The iShares Agribusiness Ucits ETF (SPAG) took in €418mn, and iShares Digital Security Ucits ETF (SHLG) and L&G Cyber Security Ucits ETF (ISPY) both took in more than €200mn in Q1....
...According to a blog post laying out L&G’s voting intentions in the coming AGM season, the £1.3tn investment arm of the UK insurance group plans to vote against management on a whole range of issues....
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...For example, iShares Automation & Robotics UCITS ETF (RBOT) and L&G Global Robotics and Automation UCITS ETF (ROBG) only have one holding out of their top 10 in common, despite both running to a global mandate...
...Merck sold its consumer products division to P&G in 2018. A year later GSK and Pfizer formed a joint venture from their consumer products divisions, which they plan to spin off next year....
...like Lancôme and L’Oréal Paris....
...The question of whether or not to accelerate the energy transition “is not in our gift”, L&G head of climate solutions Nick Stansbury told Moral Money. “What is in our gift is when we choose to do it....
...Chairman Sir Arthur Bryan’s acclaimed takeover of smaller potteries — Adams, Coalport, Masons Ironstone, J&G Meakin, Johnson Bros and glassmaker Waterford Crystal — in the ’70s led ultimately to their annihilation...
...The late Denis Durantou of Ch L’Église-Clinet was responsible for it and it’s a fine memorial to his skills....
...Very different examples from the first category include L&G Digital Payments UCITS ETF (DPAY) and Procure Space UCITS ETF (YODA)....
...I think this too (at least the “E” and “S” parts; there may be hope for “G”), but it means a lot more coming from him, and he does not hold back....
...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...Beauty group Garnier, owned by L’Oréal, promised last year to plant a tree each time a bottle of certain skin and haircare products was sold at Asda, the British retailer....
...Within the past week, the denim fashion companies G-Star RAW and Lucky Brand have filed for Chapter 11 protection....
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