Aviva chair buys shares post-AIG acquisitionColefax CEO and directors sell shares in tender offerSirius Real Estate CEO sells 500,000 sharesGeorge Culmer, chairman of Aviva (AV.), bought 110,675 shares at 396p for a total value of £437,799 on 25 September.The purchase comes as the UK insurer announced it was buying AIG's UK protection business for £450 million and almost a month after Aviva chie

The stock market's smallest and riskiest companies have always held fascination for private investors. On the premise that 'elephants don't gallop, but fleas leap,' to borrow Jim Slater's often quoted phrase, it's easier for a tiny company to double its size, and investor's money, than for a big one. Let's face it, a blue chip company worth £1 billion will find it much harder to double or even tr

Risk-averse investors should sell luxury furnishings fabrics and wallpapers designer Colefax (CFX: AIM) ahead of half-year figures in January. Shares believes there is potential for forecast downgrades given deteriorating trading conditions in the UK and Europe.Colefax designs and distributes high-end soft furnishings under brands including Colefax and Fowler, Jane Churchill and Cowtan and Tout, a

Year to date, the Household Goods & Home Construction sector has proved the fifth best FTSE All-Share performer, rallying alongside other cyclicals including General Retailers as bolder investors bet the worst of the consumer depression is over. The sector is formed of two distinct parts however; the quoted house builders accounting for the 'Home Construction' segment have had a phenomenal run in