- US judge supports claims by Burford's clients- Case relates to nationalisation of YPF in 2012- Company could take a 40% share of compensationLong-suffering investors in litigation finance provider Burford Capital (BUR:AIM) received an early Easter gift with the news late last week that a US court had decided in the firm's favour in a long-running legal dispute with the Argentinian...

As 2022 draws to a close amid continuing market volatility Shares has canvassed leading fund managers to find out where they have been finding the best opportunities.Jamie Ross - Henderson Eurotrust (Hne)LOOKING OUT FOR BOMBED-OUT GROWTH STOCKSWe have spent the last 12 months trying to find opportunities within the growthier area of the market - our favoured part of the market and the part of...

- Burberry finance director sells £300,000 worth of shares- Follows announcement of new £5 billion sales target- Litigation Capital Management chair buys £261,000 worth of sharesThe finance director at luxury brand Burberry (BRBY) has sold £344,000 worth of shares a few weeks after its first half results.Appointed in January 2017, Julie Brown sold 16,000 shares at a price of £21.50 on 30...

- Darktrace CEO buys £120,000 worth of shares- Buying follows collapse of takeover talks with Thoma Bravo- Litigation Capital Management CEO and chair snap up combined £600,000 worth of sharesThe chief executive of cybersecurity tech business Darktrace (DARK) Poppy Gustafsson has snapped up £120,000 worth of shares in the company.This represents a show of faith in the business after the big...

Keeping a regular watch on stocks with positive and negative share price momentum is a useful exercise as it tells us which areas of the market are hot or not.Investors who follow a pure momentum strategy like to buy stocks that keep a hitting a new 12-month high in the belief the share price is on a roll and can keep going up.Some investors avoid stocks hitting a new 12-month low, for fear...

Stocks made further gains on Wednesday after Fed chairman Jerome Powell repeated his view that price pressures in the US economy were temporary and confirmed the central bank would not raise interest rates pre-emptively.US markets rallied with the Nasdaq 100 tech index making a new all-time high, helped by gains in drugmaker Moderna and chipmaker Nvidia.By 8.30am the FTSE 100 index was up 18...

In a year in which 'quality growth' stocks stretched their outperformance over 'value' stocks, notwithstanding a late bounce-back in the latter on the announcement of a Covid vaccine, it seems odd that UK investors should have overlooked the legal sector.As it is, most legal services and related stocks registered double-digit percentage losses last year with many underperforming the FTSE...

Shares in litigation finance provider Burford Capital (BUR:AIM) leapt 16% to 726p on Thursday, taking gains for the week to almost 23%, after the firm reported 'significant realisations' and cash receipts for the half-year to June.Burford-only realisations rose 40% to $478 million, well above market expectations, while group-wide realisations rose 32% to $820 million.Notably, there was no...

While no firm wants to be seen publicly to be 'having a good crisis', given the gravity of the threat to the economy and public health from coronavirus, the fact is some firms are doing rather well despite, or in some cases as a result of, the pandemic.Some have been in the right place at the right time - think of healthcare, sanitation and hygiene firms - while others have been less obvious...

Shares in litigation finance firm Burford Capital (BUR:AIM) are flying high, up 15% to £14.98 after the firm announced that it had secured funding for $1.6bn (£1.25bn) in new investments.The money is coming from three sources: an unnamed sovereign wealth fund (SWF), a new private investment fund and Burford's own reserves.To begin with Burford has formed a strategic relationship with an SWF...