UK companies are struggling to keep up with peers on growth Markets UK companies are failing to keep up with international peers on sustained growth, data from Panmure Liberum has revealed. While practically all companies manage to create strong growth on occasional years, few companies have managed to keep growth going every year, noted Joachim Klement, investment strategist at Panmure Liberum. The longest streak on record for [...]
3i Group: Inside Britain’s biggest retailer you’ve probably never heard of Investing £32.5bn investment trust, 3i Group, owns Britain’s biggest retailer: Action. You’ve likely never heard of Action, and that’s because it doesn’t actually operate in the UK, instead having close to 3,000 stores across 12 European countries like Germany, the Netherlands and France. The group is kind of like B&M: Selling items at a low cost, [...]
Investors brace for wave of share buybacks from UK companies Investing The UK is on the cusp of a “regime change” in corporate attitudes towards share buybacks, Panmure Liberum analysts have said. Looking through financial statements, Panmure Liberum analysts Joachim Klement and Susana Cruz found that mentions of buybacks have risen 144 per cent over the last year for FTSE 100 companies, with a 79 per [...]
MSCI under fire for ESG ratings ‘biases’ that could cost investors January 22, 2024 A Liberum analyst has hit out at MSCI over its ESG ratings, calling for investors to ignore sustainability ratings from the firm due to “biases” in its ratings methodology that could lose them money. In a Substack blog post this morning, investment strategist Joachim Klement cited a recent paper from Bocconi University that found investors [...]
