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Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 2 January 2008
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: While the nation recovered from New Year's celebrations, the credit-crunch hangover from 2007 lingered on for UK investors, whose interest remained strong in financial and retail equities this week, as they contemplated the outlook for 2008.
TD Waterhouse reveals the most traded shares in 2007
TD Waterhouse, the award winning execution-only broker, revisits the twists and turns that impacted the financial markets in 2007 and takes stock of the sectors and companies that were singled out as hotspots by retail investors.
Ethical concerns influence investment choices
With stories about global warming, human rights and environmental concerns grabbing the media headlines, research by Alliance Trust Savings, the online sharedealing expert, reveals that one in four online sharedealers (26%) take ethical concerns into account when making their buying and selling decisions.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 14 December 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Last week’s quarter-point interest-rate cut failed to stave off predictions of an economic slowdown for 2008.
Companies need to come clean on carbon neutrality
The need for carbon management has been accepted by many business leaders and 28 out of 557 companies in the FTSE all-share index have sought to demonstrate that they are managing carbon risk by becoming carbon neutral or offering carbon offsetting mechanisms to their customers.
Investors demand more
Investors are increasingly using sophisticated techniques and faster pricing to gain returns, with over one in ten (11 per cent) currently using real time Level 2 pricing and a third of investors (33 per cent) using Direct Market Access (DMA), according to research from Barclays Stockbrokers.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 5 December 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: A sigh of relief was given from investors and cash-strapped borrowers across the UK, after the Bank of England yesterday decided to cut interest rates from 5.75 per cent to 5.5 per cent.
Halifax offers another commission-free sharetrading day
Private investors looking to build on their existing portfolios in the run-up to Christmas are being given a special Yuletide gift from Halifax Share Dealing in the shape of a commission-free share purchase day on 19 December 2007.
Stock market investors react to credit crunch
One in five stock market investors (21 per cent) have moved some of their money into more cautious investments, such as cash or bonds over the past three months according to the Investor Outlook report from Lloyds TSB Wealth Management.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 28 November 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: The financial services sector has seen a surge of investor activity in the last week with Northern Rock continuing to be a central focus.
Investors seek returns through diversification
Investors are becoming increasingly more diverse with their investments according to new research from Barclays Stockbrokers, with 79 per making concerted efforts to ensure their portfolio is diversified.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 23 November 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Northern Rock retains a strong hold over the Top Ten Trades this week, along with the rest of the financial services sector, as the stricken Newcastle mortgage lender continues to dominate market news.
Top ten retail investor buys & sells for week ending 16 November 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Once again, the financial services sector dominated market news and investor activity this week with Northern Rock, RBS, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Alliance & Leicester featuring in TD Waterhouse’s Top 10 Buys.
80% of households do not invest in the stock market
People are put off stock market investments through lack of knowledge or fear of falls in investment markets, with the majority preferring bank or building society savings or property investments, according to a survey by Riley, the individually insured investment from Royal London.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 9 November 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: The financial services sector held a strong presence in the Top Ten trades this week with Barclays, RBS, Lloyds TSB, Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock heading up the Top 5 Buys.