Gadgets and Gizmos with Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Tim Price, Manager of the VT Price Value Portfolio and the author of 'Investing through the looking glass: a rational guide to irrational financial markets', looks at some of the issues facing investors.
Guests: Tim Price
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Are your saving habits on track to meet your retirement expectations? Recently, Gregor Watt spoke to Miss Thrifty, a Personal Finance Blogger & Money Saving Expert and Jacqui Bateson from Skipton to find out why many of us have big plans for our retirement and how we will spend our savings, yet almost half of us have yet to start saving anything in to a pension.
Guests: Miss Thrifty,Jacqui Bateson
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Lack of sleep is costing the UK economy billions of pounds and sleep-deprivation is putting us at risk of an early death. Research firm Rand Europe found the effect on sleep deprivation on productivity and health was losing the UK up to £40 billion each year - nearly 2% of the country's GDP. Sleeping for just one extra hour a night could add £24 billion to the UK economy. Olivia Demetriades spoke to Marco Hafner, a research leader at RAND Europe. She began by asking why a lack of sleep costs so much.
Guests: Marco Hafner
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Research reveals that parents feel out of touch with the world of work and are struggling to offer career advice to their children. According to the study comissioned by Page Group because of the speed of change in the workplace parents feel disconnected and are unable to guide their children when they make career decisions. To find out more about this Greg Watt spoke to Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE - Head of Institute of Employment Research at University of Warwick & Nick Kirk of the Page Group He started by asking Nick about the findings of the research.
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
The British Chambers of Commerce has increased its economic forecast for both this year and next, but downgraded its outlook for 2018. The business body expects GDP to grow by 2.1% this year, up from the 1.8% it forecast just three months ago. However, it reported that uncertainty over our relationship with the EU, and higher inflation, will affect medium term growth. Suren Thiru, head of economics at the BCC spoke to Glen Goodman to talk about their Quarterly Economic Survey in more detail.
Guests: Suren Thiru
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
After several years of falling food prices, this trend finally looks set to reverse, with food and drink prices expected to increase over the next 12 months. Prestige Purchasing have just released their 2016 Food & Drink Inflation Report- to find out more Glen Goodman spoke to David Read, the CEO and founder of Prestige Purchasing.
Guests: David Read
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When you hear about companies, you often hear about profit. But, sadly, the conventional measures of profit don't often tell us the full story about how a company is doing. To clear things up, Share Radio's Ed Bowsher spoke to Phil Oakley, Investment Analyst at SharePad
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Historically, December has been the second strongest month of the year on average for stocks, a phenomenon known as the Santa Claus rally. Glen was joined by Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.
Guests: Colin Cieszynski
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Crowdfunders is our weekly look at what's hot and what's not in the crowdfunding and peer-to-peer space, examining the latest news and developments in the fast growing world of alternative finance. Your host is Ed Bowsher, and on today's show he'll be taking a look at why the FCA wants to tighten crowdfunding regulations, investigating a peer-to-peer platform with high street branches, as well as getting the scoop on the launch of a new crowd match fund: Big Society Capital.
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