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Owain Bennallack

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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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

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

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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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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?

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Three companies that could go either way...

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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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Does it matter when bond returns turn upside down?

| Owain Bennallack

The US yield curve has 'inverted' ahead of every US recession for decades.

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Why Warren Buffett doesn’t do debt

| Owain Bennallack

Debt works brilliantly in investing – until it doesn't.

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The man who gave us everything

| Owain Bennallack

43 years after Bogle launched the first index fund, the cheapest trackers charge you less than 0.1% a year to…

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There are old investors and there are bold investors…

| Owain Bennallack

...but there are no old, bold investors

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5 shares that could go either way in 2019

| Owain Bennallack

Here's to an interesting year ahead...

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There are no rules in investing, actually

| Owain Bennallack

What do Love Actually and investing have in common?

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What should you do if we’re in a bear market?

| Owain Bennallack

The key is to be thoughtful when others are fearful.

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Three retailers thriving in the age of Amazon

| Owain Bennallack

Some UK retailers are succeeding even amidst the mega-disruption.

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Time to bag a Brexit bargain?

| Owain Bennallack

Domestic shares look cheap, and may be a buy for the brave.

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How becoming an investor is like learning a musical instrument

| Owain Bennallack

Why it pays to keep on praticising.

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How to build an international income portfolio

| Owain Bennallack

Dividend payouts are rising strongly across the globe.

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How to diversify Brexit risk

| Owain Bennallack

5 practical ways to help protect your wealth.

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How can you stop Brexit blowing up your portfolio?

| Owain Bennallack

With a range of outcomes still possible, it's important to be diversified.

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UK dividend investors can sleep easier

| Owain Bennallack

But remember that cash trumps profits when you're weighing up an investment.

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Not everyone on the high street is down in the dumps

| Owain Bennallack

These five retailers look well positioned for the long haul.

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Trade War, what was it good for?

| Owain Bennallack

For investors, absolutely nothing

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Why smart investors choose to make fewer decisions

| Owain Bennallack

Don’t just do something, sit there!

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How inflation has eaten away at the value of cash

| Owain Bennallack

Holding too much cash can cost you dearly.

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Rates are rising faster, but slowly

| Owain Bennallack

Will Mr. Unreliable let us down again?

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