By: Annabelle Williams

I'm deputy money editor at City A.M. I started my career on a local newspaper before moving into financial journalism. I've worked in a number of senior editorial roles including news editor and features editor. I write about global economics, investment, technology, and personal finance.

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M&G in the dog house as a massive £10.7bn of investor cash is left in serially underperforming funds

August 2, 2016

Leading investment group M&G is in the dog house as a new report reveals it's holding a massive £10.7bn of investors’ cash in serially underperforming funds. UK savers have left a massive £18bn of cash in funds which are failing to deliver – and M&G is responsible for 60 per cent of it. The findings come [...]
The economy post-Brexit: More QE or cutting interest rates? The UK’s poor productivity’s the real elephant in the room

August 2, 2016

Uncertainty over the health of the global economy persists, as a checkered patchwork of data releases add to speculation over what the future holds. In the UK, the Brexit vote has amplified worries about the economy. “It remains hard to see how the UK can avoid recession altogether, possibly starting as soon as the third quarter,” [...]
Italian challenger bank FinecoBank set to enter UK market

July 27, 2016

An Italian bank is set to enter the UK this autumn as another contender in the challenger banks’ battle against the Big Four. FinecoBank launched in 1999 as a subsidiary of UniCredit Group and has grown rapidly to have 1.1m Italian customers. It’s disrupting the banking industry by being the only company in Europe to combine [...]
How to invest in a recession – staycations and drinking at home will become trendy again if there’s a downturn

July 27, 2016

One month on from the Brexit vote and the UK economy seems in a precarious state. Economic activity is slowing, and economists have warned there’s a risk of a recession this year. The out vote has, in the International Monetary Fund’s words, put a spanner in the works. The value of the pound has fallen too, [...]
Creating a stir: Heritage and cool make the right mixer for Campari

July 26, 2016

Gruppo Campari has spent a north of €2.2bn since the financial crisis squaring up to its competitors with a string of acquisitions. In total, it’s made 29 purchases since 1995 and now counts over 50 brands in its stable. "We have to face the giants of our industry every day," says chief executive Robert Kunze-Concewitz, chief [...]
Biotech, robots, Fangs – what’s the hottest tech to invest in?

July 26, 2016

The sudden craze for mobile game Pokémon Go has brought the spotlight back onto the potential for investors in technology. The game became the fastest-adopted in history following its release two weeks ago, and shares in co-owner Nintendo rose a massive 70 per cent. The share price has since been tempered with a 17 per cent [...]
Four European hidden gem stocks for your portfolio

July 20, 2016

Europe's investment markets are wallowing in an unprecedented level of support from the European Central Bank (ECB). They are being cossetted by a massive €1.7 trillion QE programme, much of which is likely to find its way into stock markets and raise share prices. Negative interest rates are also encouraging banks to invest and the ECB [...]
Pokémon Go: Should you invest in Nintendo? Investors are set for share price slump, but longer term virtual reality games will prove a winner

July 20, 2016

The craze for newly-released mobile game Pokémon Go has sent shares in co-owner Nintendo up 75 per cent. Pokémon Go has been downloaded over 15m times since it was released last week. It currently ranks as the fastest adopted game in history. So far, it’s available to play in the UK, US, Germany, Australia and New [...]
Lessons from bankrupt footballers: They earn megabucks but are likely to squander it all. What can we learn from their mistakes?

July 15, 2016

They earn megabucks but few actually make a decent plan for their post-working lives. While we’re not all multi-millionaires, everyone has something to learn from their mistakes, explains RBC’s Jonathan Gold. Modern football is synonymous with wealth, whether through its astronomical wages or lucrative sponsorship deals. But young players are often making a Faustian bargain [...]
UK stocks in a post-Brexit world – industrials, healthcare and biotech can still do well, despite the weakening pound

July 15, 2016

The UK’s decision to vote Leave sent share prices tumbling, and the more domestically-focused FTSE 250 has been left worst off. Mark Martin, manager of the Neptune UK Mid Cap fund, explains the areas he’s still finding attractive – and the ones he’s avoiding On the Friday after Brexit, the FTSE 250 mid-cap index had [...]

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