Like most stocks, Swiss-based bottler and FTSE 100 member Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCH) faces almost unprecedented uncertainty. In theory, it is supposed to be a defensive play. I mean, the company produces, bottles and distributes finished products for The Coca-Company in around thirty different countries, mostly in Central and Eastern…

I started a fresh fund portfolio this week, albeit one spread across a Hargreaves Lansdown ISA and a general Vanguard account. In the former I’ve bought three HSBC tracker funds – European Index, Pacific Index & Japan Index. The first aims to track the FTSE Developed Europe ex-UK Index. It’s a…

I first made the value case for telecom giant BT (BT) on Seeking Alpha just over three years ago. Needless to say, the share price performance since then has made a dog’s dinner of that call. I mean at time of publication (early 2017) the shares changed hands for somewhere…

It seems apt to kick off the site’s single stock coverage with a look at the JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trust (JHC). I say that for two reasons really. Firstly, the fund’s balance sheet is loaded with around £500m worth of British blue chip stocks — a perfect fit for the…

Sequence of returns risk is a topic that has been getting a lot more prominence in the UK recently. We are living longer on average, and that means we will become more reliant on savings and pensions to fund retirement spending. Doubly so given the era of defined benefit pension…

A poster on the UKInvesting subreddit recently asked about the merits of opening an ISA versus a traditional broker account. My honest view is that it’s one of the best things an individual can do in terms of their savings. Actually, let me expand that to include exploiting all tax-deferred…