Many of you have been waiting for David Thorpe to get his hands on the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III so he can share his thoughts on the latest Micro Four Thirds camera to arrive from Olympus and, with the following line, we think he likes what he sees. "Olympus has come up with what, in my view, might be the best all-round camera available," David Thorpe on the OM-D E-M1 Mark III. In his video review, David says he expected another 'ho-hum, here we go again' copy of the last Olympus camera to...

The board of the £1.4bn City of London investment trust has confirmed its intention to increase the dividend it pays to clients this year, despite the fund's holdings having been ravaged by the recent market chaos. This will mark the 54th consecutive year the payout has increased, a record in the UK investment trust market. Many of the trust's investments have been ravaged by the recent sell-off, with the trust losing 24 per cent over the past three months. Oil company Shell, being the...

Even without the ravaging uncertainty of the Coronavirus, the challenge laid down to chancellor Rishi Sunak was vast. The government decided to frame fiscal policy within two priorities. The first was that the day to day government budget would be balanced within three years, the second that billions would be spent on infrastructure and other spending in the North of England, and that a target rate of growth would be above 2 per cent in normal times. Mr Sunak’s response was to announce a...

With most of the sectors on a sharp downward spiral, the main consideration for most fund managers right now is the strength of a company’s balance sheet, according to Peter Toogood. The chief investment officer at Embark Group, who has the same role at The Adviser Centre consultancy, said the current crisis was "far worse" than 2008 because the whole chain of economic activity was broken. He said: “There has been an almost complete cessation of economic activity, no one has seen this...

A tiny number of stocks are top ten positions in a majority of the 84 UK Equity Income funds currently available to advisers in the UK, data from Octopus shows. Of the 84 funds in the IA UK Equity Income sector, pharmaceutical company GSK was held as a top ten position in 64 of them, which equates to 76 per cent, according to the data, which was sourced from Lipper and from fund factsheets, dated January 22. Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is held in 55 of the funds, equating to 65 per cent of...