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More and more people today want their investments to reflect their values—in a sense, "putting their money where their mouth is"—while also providing a good financial return. Professional investment firms have responded by creating mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other vehicles to respond to the demand. According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, or US SIF, there were US$17.1 trillion invested in sustainable investing strategies at year-end 2019,…

What Is Thematic Investing? Thematic investing is an investment approach that seeks to outperform the general market by buying stocks and other financial assets that the investor or portfolio manager believes will benefit from widespread economic, social, financial and technological trends over the long term. Thematic investing goes beyond sector investing, in which a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) invests in securities in a particular industry. Rather, thematic investing…

As we have entered the second half of the year, many high- profile companies have already reported their financial results and some of them have stood out

Although the UK100 is off of its pandemic lows it has lagged other indexes such as the GER30 and SPX500. Nevertheless, there are certainly companies which are performing well with potential upside ahead. In this article we look at 4 companies that either have good fundamental underpinnings, share price momentum, or significant company changes that may unlock shareholder value. Moreover, the following 4 companies are well placed to take advantage…

After the markets close on Monday August 30th, Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.us) will release its financial results for the three-month period that ended in July (Q2 FY2022).

The second quarter earnings season was very good with over 80% of S&P 500 companies reporting an earnings surprise. Moreover, stock indexes performed strongly with FXCM's SPX500 up 8.25%, the NAS100 up 11.5% and the US2000 coming in at 4.3% During the pandemic period, growth companies have outperformed their value counterparts. This is largely due to the benefit that these companies have received from the lower rate environment as central…

NIO Inc. (NIO.us) reported solid financial results for the second quarter of the year , after the US markets closed last Wednesday

2021 proved to be a record-setting period for private companies launching their initial public offerings (IPOs). In fact, through the first half of the calendar year, the IPO market approached record levels for annual proceeds while eclipsing previous benchmarks for listings. From 1 January 2021 to 26 July 2021, the money raised by IPOs hit US$89 billion, up 232% year over year. Also, the number of listings jumped to 250,…

NVIDIA stock has doubled in the past 12 months but why is the stock so highly valued and what has been driving the growth? NVIDIA Corporation operates a worldwide visual computing company comprised of two segments, Graphics and Compute & Networking. The Graphics segment is perhaps the most well-known, providing GeForce GPUs (Graphics processing units) for PCs & Gaming, the GeForce NOW game streaming service & related infrastructure, and solutions…

Robinhood is a mobile trading app with a massive following in the US. As its name suggests, its mission is to make Wall Street available to everyone not just the wealthy. The company has made global headlines in 2021, mainly around the Gamestop short squeeze, and is a driving factor of the growing influence social media is having recently on financial markets. The IPO has been long awaited and finally…

Aided by vast government stimulus and unlimited quantitative easing (QE), 2020/2021 proved to be especially lucrative for the U.S. stock markets. In fact, the leading American equities indices routinely posted fresh record highs amid the COVID-19 economic recovery. July 2021 brought a historic event for U.S. large cap stocks, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) eclipsed 35,000 for the first time ever. Amid the 2020/2021 equities market bull run,…