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Owain Bennallack

Owain is a magpie of the investing world -- and not because he gets into a flap. Almost any style of investing might suit him, depending on the bigger picture, and he's held all sorts of companies. Paraphrasing Keynes, he says: “When the market changes, I change my mind -- what do you do?” That said, Owain is usually a buyer of equities, where he prefers lightly geared, modestly rated companies, and is increasingly on the lookout for Buffett-style intangible quality. He aspires to buy-and-hold: his best investment ideas are worth much more than he sold them for. Then again, his worst investment went bust due to management fraud!

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Towering disappointment

| Owain Bennallack

Most investing textbooks will tell you commercial property – or real estate, as US authors prefer – is a useful…

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Who will profit from this chaos?

| Owain Bennallack

There are some bright notes. Wholesale gas prices have come down recently. Perhaps next year’s energy bills won’t be quite…

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There are no no-brainers in investing

| Owain Bennallack

The lesson of history is not that every decade you get a ‘no-brainer’ chance to dust down your Warren Buffett…

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Public misgivings

| Owain Bennallack

Elon Musk faces huge challenges if he’s to make a profit on his $44 billion investment in Twitter.

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The bond vigilantes are back

| Owain Bennallack

Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary founder of the USSR, once said: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks…

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The end of the tech slump or just a Figma of the imagination?

| Owain Bennallack

Could Adobe's big ticket takeover similarly break the disenchantment of tech investors?

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How to buy £1 for 85p

| Owain Bennallack

Investment trusts may trade at a discount for many reasons – often at once – but it’s mostly centred on…

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Should investors trust in Truss?

| Owain Bennallack

What would we press new Prime Minister Liz Truss to get on with?

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Investing in inflation

| Owain Bennallack

Inflation was moribund in the West for two decades, with near-zero interest rates since the financial crisis their barely perkier…

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Time to take your shot to get rich

| Owain Bennallack

In Time’s Arrow – a mind-bending novel by Martin Amis – time runs backwards. Everything that happens proceeds from what we’d consider…

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Things change

| Owain Bennallack

Uncertainty is the only certainty. Stay humble and diversified.

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3 things I don’t do to make money from shares

| Owain Bennallack

Stick to buying good companies that you'd ideally own for the long-term, or else invest in index funds and get…

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Investing for a pandemic-proof portfolio

| Owain Bennallack

What to invest in if the world has changed due to the pandemic...

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5 other things going on besides Covid-19

| Owain Bennallack

Realising how big stories can be crowded out by even bigger stories can give an investor antibodies against news media…

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Doomed dinosaurs and diversification

| Owain Bennallack

Change is a constant, in life and markets. Invest accordingly.

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Coronavirus crisis cancelled?

| Owain Bennallack

If the world's largest economy is a canary in the coalmine, it's squawking.

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You don’t have to buy the market

| Owain Bennallack

If you want to fine-tune your exposure to what happens next, we think stock picking will be more fruitful than…

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5 straightforward reasons to pass on an investment

| Owain Bennallack

Don't invest in opportunities you don't believe in.

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A tale of two retailers

| Owain Bennallack

Why Next could be a better recovery play than Marks and Spencer.

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Heroes or zeroes?

| Owain Bennallack

Investing decisions that look obvious in hindsight aren't in real-time.

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Online retailers’ wild ride sums up shopping for shares in 2020

| Owain Bennallack

Online retailers seem like natural beneficiaries from lockdown life.

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Are you ready to wade into the stock market wreckage?

| Owain Bennallack

Going against the crowd should power your portfolio to future profits.

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Competition watchdog’s bark will likely prove worse than bite

| Owain Bennallack

Most previous investigations have found little evidence of anti-competitive antics, suggesting shareholders have little to worry about.

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Gimme shelter

| Owain Bennallack

Defensive, quality, and dividend-paying shares have all been hit for six.

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Will 2020 be the year the banks bounce back?

| Owain Bennallack

Could UK banks finally experience the recovery enjoyed by their US peers?

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5 ways to profit from the death of the high street

| Owain Bennallack

Shop properties are trading at a big discount, as the market wonders if the tills will ever ring again like…

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Binary bets: Bargains or basket cases?

| Owain Bennallack

Three companies that could go either way...

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Keep investing drama for your living room

| Owain Bennallack

Everyday investing is a duller affair...

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How to react to the General Election result

| Owain Bennallack

History suggests the markets will work through most political turmoil.

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Did you miss the Brexit bounce?

| Owain Bennallack

UK shares don't look quite as unloved as they did...

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Five lessons from five great investors

| Owain Bennallack

Learning from the best.

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In hindsight, you were a brilliant investor

| Owain Bennallack

Investors pay the price for uncertainty every day in the stock market.

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Takeovers targeted

| Owain Bennallack

With the pound down, foreign investors have come shopping...

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How will you bet on big oil?

| Owain Bennallack

Is there a trickier sector to assess than energy?

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Are these fundamental factors past their sell-by date?

| Owain Bennallack

What if these 'fundamentals' have stopped working?

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Everything matters but you don’t know how

| Owain Bennallack

Forget about guessing which shares will do best next month...

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Many unhappy returns

| Owain Bennallack

Private investors often delude themselves about their performance.

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After the stock market hangover…

| Owain Bennallack

Having crashed before Christmas, shares are back around all-time highs.

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Are your companies living on borrowed time?

| Owain Bennallack

It's worth doing an audit...

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3 companies in a crisis

| Owain Bennallack

Could this be a chance to back a recovery?

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