Share Sounds. presented by Juliette Foster

This is a brand new edition of The Apprentice Investor. Regular listeners to the programme will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. They're allowed a minimum of eight stocks from different sectors which they've been buying and selling through the Share Centre. Our Apprentices under the spotlight today are Matt Cox and Alexi Phillips. Find past episodes on The Apprentice Investor audioBoom page: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-apprenticeinvestor Want to start investing yourself? Check out our other shows to help you get to grips with the world of finance: The Investment Trust Show: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-investmenttrustshow Crowdfunders: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-crowdfunders Serious Money with Claer Barrett: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-seriousmoney

The world holds its breath as American voters hit the ballot box today for the 2016 US presidential election. Not only could the international community be dealing with a populist President in the shape of Donald Trump - his victory will heighten wariness of populism stirring elsewhere in the world. So, how should we understand the movement that propelled Mr. Trump? Is it something to welcome or to fear? Jan-Werner Muller is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and author of 'What is Populism?', a book that attempts to extract the core of the populist ideology. Share Radio's Alex Clark spoke to Professor Muller. 'What is Populism?' is published by Penn Press and retails for £13.00.

This week is Good money Week. To mark the occasion, the investment company Standard Life has released a paper outlining how impact investing has entered the mainstream. Share Radio's Alexi Philips spoke to Amanda Young, Standard Life's Head of Responsible Investment, to investigate this exciting way to invest.

Storyteller and financial journalist Chris Bishop speaks to Share Radio's Alex Clark, taking you across the continent of Africa from his desk in Johannesburg for the major stories of the week. On today's programme: state capture in South Africa. A report from the country's public prosecutor has released a report detailing the full extent of the Gupta family's political influence. Is this a turning point for good governance in South Africa? Chris gives his take. For more of Chris's stories, check out last week’s episode: https://audioboom.com/posts/5226386-conversations-from-africa-fraud-charge-backtrack

This is My Portfolio with Lord Lee, our weekly look at investment decisions from the perspective of both the investor and the invested side by side. As ever, our investor is weekly FT columnist Lord John Lee. He is also author of the book 'How to Make a Million Slowly: My Guiding Principles from a Lifetime of Successful Investing'. This week, Lord Lee's invested is David Marock, Group Chief Executive Officer at Charles Taylor. He joined Lord Lee and Share Radio's Juliette Foster in the studio.

Our Responsible Investment Show aims to help investors understand the complexities of investment, to disprove some of the common misconceptions, and to raise attention to the pressing investment issues of our time. On this episode: Share Radio's Juliette Foster tackles the launch of the first ever green energy ISA along with reports that two top oil companies are joining forces to create a fund for developing renewable technology. And Share Radio's Alex Clark investigates on Good Money Week - a campaign to promote ethical investment. For more Responsible Investment, check out last week's episode: https://audioboom.com/posts/5204714-the-responsible-investment-show-cybercrime-goes-mainstream

Share Radio Afternoon teams up with the FT Money Editor Claer Barratt to talk Serious Money - the personal finance and investment highlights of her FT Money section. On this edition, Claer and Share Radio's Juliette Foster examine the Trump effect, Tescobank's hack, and the launch of the new Lifetime ISA.

Ian Forrest, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, reviews this week's stock market activity with Share Radio's Juliette Foster. They take a look back at M&S, Associated British Foods, and Imperial Brands from this week, as well as how you can financially prepare for the US election. They also look ahead to easyJet, William Hill, and Barratt Developments.

Donald Trump has won the 2016 US presidential election for the Republicans, beating his Democrat rival Hilary Clinton. It's fair to say Trump's triumph has eclipsed the day-to-day hubbub of UK politics... So today Share Radio's Juliette Foster and Mike Indian, Senior Political Analyst at De Haviland, take a break from Westminster's corridors of power to give The View from Washington. They're joined in the studio by Ed Bowsher, Share Radio's Senior Analyst, and Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, Geoeconomics Fellow for the US & Americas Programme at Chatham House.

US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been making last minute appeals to their supporters as the polls have opened to select the 45th leader of the world's biggest super power. Republican Donald Trump has fought an unconventional and at times highly controversial election campaign. He repeatedly accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of criminal behaviour and even threatened to have her investigated if he wins power. Mrs Clinton condemned him as a misogynist unfit to hold office after Mr Trump was secretly recorded making lewd comments about women. Too often the banter and name calling has diverted attention away from the issues that the winner will have to deal with. There's the civil war in Syria, the battle to get the so-called Islamic State out of Iraq, and America's worsening relations with a newly resurgent Russia. Throw in the matter of globalization and how the benefits should be distributed - it isn't hard to see why whoever takes over at the White House will have their hands full. For more analysis, Share Radio's Juliette Foster was joined in the studio by Professor John Weeks, Share Radio's regular economics commentator and Jeff Faux of the Economic Policy Institute all the way from Washington.