Think small to find the best banks

The apologists for the relentless expansion in the size and cost of Britain’s public-sector debt like to point out that other major developed economies face a similar predicament. Although government

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From Small Acquisitions to Giant Shareholder Returns Oddbjorn Dybvad, Kjetil Nyland and Adnan Hadziefendic The Book Press, £24.99 C onglomerates have developed a bad reputation. Owning a sprawling col

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The real-estate investment trust (Reit) segment of the UK equity market has been on life support for much of the past five years and it’s easy to understand why investors have decided to give the sect

A healthy aspect of capitalism is that the interests of small shareholders are mostly aligned with large shareholders. When an amateur investor buys shares in the same company as a much larger institu