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Magazine - 27 Jun 2019

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Taking your first steps with investing needn't be a frightening experience if you know what's involved. Shares has created a step-by-step guide covering all the main points you need to think about. It also suggests five funds to start your investment journey.

Also this week: the investors queuing up to buy stock from Woodford's suspended fund; and proposals for a new fund structure that could lock up your money for longer.

Read part two of Shares' ESG investing guide which includes its favourite active and passive funds to play different ESG themes.

Feature

Emerging Markets: Why Russia has outperformed

Further rate cuts could support a Russian stock market which has enjoyed a resilient performance. Sponsored by Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust

Feature

Emerging Markets: Views from the Experts

Three things the Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity team are thinking about today. Sponsored by Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust

News

FirstGroup sees off boardroom coup attempt

Activist investor Coast Capital tried to remove six of 11 board members

News

Funds industry looks for solution to liquidity dilemma

Investment Association responds after high profile fund suspensions

Great Ideas

Investors get a second bite of the cherry after Carnival lowers guidance

Great Ideas

Why we remain bullish on Tesco

Supermarket group has plans to boost profitability

Great Ideas

Kainos is at the forefront of a digital transformation

It has huge opportunities in helping government departments and companies

News

Can Glencore shake off ESG backlash?

Analysts suggest the miner should consider segregating its coal cash flows

Great Ideas

The price is right: Royal Mail shares are now a bargain

The stock is too good to ignore at the current price despite a few headwinds

News

Investors line up to buy cut-price stock from suspended Woodford fund

The restructuring of Woodford Equity Income Fund is gathering pace

News

IQE feels smartphones squeeze from intensifying US/Chinese trade dispute

Complex supply chains and high fixed costs see analysts slash earnings hopes

Editor's View

Don’t hitch a ride with newly-listed Trainline

The risk versus reward analysis does not favour buying the shares

Russ Mould

What rate cuts could mean for your portfolio

Examining why central banks are (still) looking to monetary stimulus

Under The Bonnet

Now is not the time to invest in Lloyds Banking

Hopes of lower bad debts and a bumper buyback may be premature

Ask Tom

‘How can the self-employed boost their retirement savings?’

AJ Bell pensions expert Tom Selby has the answers

Feature

Shares’ ESG portfolio: seven funds to buy now

We pick a mixture of active and passive funds, investment trusts and ETFs to play the ESG theme

Funds

Micro-cap funds caught up in Brexit and Woodford liquidity fallout

Most funds in this space have lost investors money over the past 12 months

Feature

Exploring the ‘G’ in ESG: why governance is very important to investing

Shareholder rights, executive diversity and business ethics are major areas in today’s corporate world

Feature

Gold hits six-year high and sends mining share prices soaring

Why the metal has rallied and different way to get exposure

Personal Finance

How to cut both funeral and burial costs

There could also be a clampdown in the industry on excessive pricing

Feature

First-time investor: how to plan and what to buy

Our step-by-step guide has everything you need to start investing in the markets

Investment Trusts

Wide dispersion of discounts and premiums among private equity trusts

We explain why the sector is behaving in an unusual way