Original Broadcast: Global Perspectives with Ed Bowsher
Today was a good day for commodity investors given that the share prices of big mining companies were on the up. But if you step back from today's activities, the last three years haven't been such a good period for the world of commodities - especially when you look at the prices of commodities such as copper, So to look at where commodities might go from here, Share Radio's Ed Bowsher was joined by Nitesh Shah, Director and Commodities Strategist at ETF Securities.
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Original Broadcast: My Portfolio with Lord John Lee
Share Radio's Steve Clarke is joined in the studio by Lord Lee, author of the book "How to Make a Million Slowly: My Guiding Principles from a Lifetime of Successful Investing" and writer of a weekly FT column, and David Rugg, Chief Executive at Christie and Co., which is one of the companies that John has invested in. Discussed in the studio today: What makes a good investment decision? Considered from the point of view of the investor, and the invested.
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Original Broadcast: The Apprentice Investor
This is a new edition of The Apprentice Investor. Regular listeners to the programme will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. They're allowed a minimum of eight stocks from different sectors which they've been buying and selling through the Share Centre. Our two apprentice investors today are Valsa de Winter and Matt Cox - and giving us his verdict on their efforts is Share Radio's senior analyst, Ed Bowsher.
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Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
This is 'Crowdfunders', the Share Radio programme that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance. On today's show, Share Radio's Ed Bowsher discusses a report which looks at the investment performance of one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms: Seedrs Ed also finds out about the latest developments with the Innovative Finance ISA. This ISA still hasn't really got up and running yet - even though it was supposed to be widely available from April.
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Original Broadcast: The Investment Hour with Ed Bowsher
Biotech stocks often appeal to private investors because they can deliver big rewards. But with big potential rewards come substantial risk. Share Radio's Ed Bowsher discusses Biotech stocks with Tom Bulford, Editor of the 'Breakthrough Biotech' newsletter and former City fund manager.
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Original Broadcast: Your Money, Your Future
In this week’s edition Sarah looks at ethical investing – what it involves and how you can make money from it. It’s been around for more than 30 years, but how many of us know what it means, let alone do it?
Guests: John Ditchfield,Simon Clements,Becky O’Connor,Dan Hird
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Welcome to This is Money, presented in partnership with NS&I. On this episode we're seeing the quicksand deepening for savers, as another base rate cut looms, and savings rates plummet through the floor. Bad news especially those under 30, the so-called Millenials or YOLO Generation. But is it their fault they know so little about money, and have even less hope for the future? We'll also be looking at some spare change that could bring you a mint, critical illness insruance that doesn't necessarily cover you for critical illnesses, and the greatest weapon in the fight against scammers: Information. This is Money is presented by Georgie Frost, in partnership with NS&I
Guests: Simon Lambert,Lee Boyce
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Original Broadcast: The Week Ahead
Ian Forrest, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, reviews this week's stock market activity with Share Radio's Juliette Foster. They discuss a tumultuous week for Sports Direct, Dixon's inability to detect any Brexit effect on sales, Ashtead's difficulty with the weak sterling, and Microfocus buys HP's software division. They also look ahead to Next and WM Morrison.
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Original Broadcast: The Investment Trust Show
This Thursday at 4:30, we are holding a special Q&A edition of this week's Investment Trust show with Henderson Global Investors. Send us in your investment questions via twitter @shareradiouk or email us on [email protected].
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Original Broadcast: The Apprentice Investor
This is a new edition of The Apprentice Investor. Regular listeners to the programme will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. They're allowed a minimum of eight stocks from different sectors which they've been buying and selling through the Share Centre. So how well or badly are our financial wizards doing? Are their portfolios overflowing with riches or running at a loss? Share Radio's Juliette Foster was joined in the studio by apprentices Alexi Philips and Olivia Demetriades - standing by with some good advice iwas Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.
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