Money Makers

In this week’s Money Makers podcast Jonathan Davis spends 40 minutes talking to the market strategist Eoin Treacy about his latest views on equity markets, bonds, currencies and the outlook for inflation.

Are there good opportunities in the investment trust sector at the moment – and if so where? After such a strong run have the world’s equity markets risen too far too fast? Jonathan Davis puts these questions to Richard Curling, who runs a fund of investment trusts for Jupiter Asset Management, as part of a wide-ranging discussion about the markets and the closed end fund sector in the latest Money Makers podcast. Often known as the City’s best kept secret, the best investment trusts consistently outperform their open-ended equivalents, but you have to know how and where to look for them.

Resource stocks made a strong recovery in 2016 after a torrid bear market, with both oil and mining companies heading the index performance tables. Few professional investors were more exposed to this rollercoaster ride than Angelos Damaskos, the manager of two specialist small cap commodity funds widely followed by private investors, Junior Oil and Junior Gold. In the latest Money Makers podcast he gives his views on the two sectors now – where he thinks commodity prices are heading and how he is positioning his funds for that environment.

In the latest Money Makers podcast we catch up again with Chris Hutchinson, lead fund manager at Unicorn Asset Management, the boutique small cap and AIM fund management firm that boasts one of the best long-term records in its universe. How has the fund coped with the fallout from Brexit and Trump’s election? What are the prospects for future returns? And why despite strong demand has the firm capped new applications to its market-leading AIM venture capital trust at just 10% of assets?

The Trump rally has taken the world’s equity markets to new highs in many countries, and together with the fall in the value of the pound, has made the past year among the best 12-month periods for investors in living memory. What next? Can the good times keep rolling? In the latest Money Makers podcast I sit down with Mark Dampier, Head of Research at Hargreaves Lansdown, the number one platform for private investors in the UK, to discuss the market outlook and where the best opportunities and greatest risks lie now (30 minutes)

An interview with Gervais Williams, Managing Director of Miton Group plc and author of new book The Retreat of Globalisation

Fund manager Chris Rice expects a downturn as unemployment and interest rates turn - discover why in this interview with Money Maker's editor Jonathan Davis.

The Harriman Stock Market Almanac is an annual publication which is a must-read for all fans of stock market investing – it combines a mixture of some trivial but amusing anecdotes and facts about the stock market with some more interesting analysis of trends that recur each year and other kinds of anomalies: things that, theoretically at least, you can make some money out of if you are aware of them. In this podcast, Jonathan Davis speaks with Almanac editor and investor Stephen Eckett about several of these anomalies – and what investors can do to take advantage of them.

Paul Jourdan is the CEO of Amati Global Investors. With his colleagues, a team of three, he runs three funds that specialise in small-cap and unquoted stocks. In this podcast, Jonathan Davis asks Paul how where we are in the market cycle has affected small caps, what the impact of Brexit looks like, and what makes for an ideal small company from an investor's perspective.

The election of Donald Trump as American President took much of the world by surprise. By chance John Kay, the author and business economist, well known for his columns in the Financial Times, happened to be in New York when the result was announced. In the latest Money Makers podcast I asked him for his initial reactions to the outcome.

Value investing has had a bad run, one of its worst in market history. Is that finally about to change? There are signs that a patient, long-term investing style based on finding cheap securities is finally starting to make a comeback. In the latest Money Makers podcast, Joe Bauernfreund, manager of the British Empire Trust, an investment trust closely associated with a value approach, explains why he thinks the recent revival has legs – and where he is currently finding the best bargains for his global equity portfolio.

In this podcast, we turn our attention to gold, that most emotive of investment topics, derided by some as a “barbarous relic” and feted by others as a vital defence against inflation and the debasement of currency. Jonathan Davis is joined to discuss this always fascinating subject by the fund manager Charlie Morris, who in his day job, after 15 years at HSBC, now runs multi-asset portfolios for Newscape Capital and finds time to produce a regular free monthly commentary on gold called Atlas Pulse. After a wild ride that has seen gold rise from $400 an ounce in 2000 to a peak of $1,900 in 2012, it is now back trading in the $1,250 to $1,300 range. Is that good or bad value? How much gold should investors have in their portfolios? What is the best way to invest in it? Where is the price headed next? These are all questions that we discuss in this podcast. But we start with a more fundamental question. What is gold and how should investors set about thinking about it?

In this latest Money Makers podcast Jonathan Davis talks with Peter Spiller, who enjoys the distinction of being perhaps the longest continuously serving fund manager in the London investment trust sector. He has been managing the Capital Gearing Trust since 1982, over which time the trust has generated a compound annual return of 15% per annum, more than 4% better than the FTSE All-Share index over the same time frame. Put that another way, £1,000 invested at the outset would be worth £17,000 today.

In this second of a two-part Money Makers podcast, Jonathan Davis continues his conversation with Tim Price, fund manager and market commentator and author of 'Investing Through the Looking Glass'. The topic under discussion is how best to invest your money in the unprecedented zero interest rate world in which we live – when bank deposits and government bonds, once the risk-free assets on which millions relied for income, yield next to nothing and central banks around the world are busy creating money left, right and centre in a desperate and so far not very successful attempt to breathe life back into their stuttering economies.

In the latest Money Makers podcast, Jonathan Davis talks to Tim Price, the fund manager and market commentator, well known for his contributions to MoneyWeek and The Spectator. The podcast breaks down into two parts. In this first part Tim, a private client investment manager for the past 20 years, puts forward his arguments for believing that the world is facing “the mother and father of financial accidents waiting to happen”, a theme he has expounded at length in a new book 'Investing Through The Looking Glass'.

Dr Peter Warburton is one of the UK’s leading independent economists and author of an insightful and prescient book Debt and Delusion, first published in 1999, which argued that policymakers and investors alike were becoming complacent about the systematic buildup of debt across the global economy - a deepening problem that finally erupted with devastating consequences in the global financial crisis of 2008. Now eight years on from that crisis, he has revised and updated his research and in an exclusive interview discusses his latest findings.

Lee Gardhouse is Chief Investment Officer at Hargreaves Lansdown as well as running a number of multi-manager funds at the firm. In this audio interview he talks with Jonathan Davis about the bright side of Brexit for equities, as well as how best to defend your portfolio from volatility in its wake and his take on recent property fund suspensions.

All this week Money Makers has been discussing Brexit – what it might mean for investors and for the economy in the UK and overseas. In this podcast, Jonathan Davis talks to Ken Fisher, the West Coast money manager who also has a very successful wealth management firm in the UK and is a widely read columnist in Forbes and the FT. Fisher explains why Brexit will have less of an impact than people think, what everyone has overlooked about Donald Trump’s challenge for the US presidency in the meantime, and why the biggest threat to one of the longest but least enthusiastic bull markets in history doesn’t reside in any of the major cities on earth – but in the rural hinterlands, where all is not calm...

Leading economist and writer John Kay talks with Jonathan Davis about what underlying factors might have really driven the Brexit vote from an economic point of view – and what the most realistic outcomes are likely to be when the dust settles, as well as how things might affect investors, governments and the European project itself.

On this episode of Talking Money, Jonathan Davis speaks with the founder of a widely talked about new firm that thinks it might just have cracked the future of wealth management: Netwealth Investments.