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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Bids eroding the London market and Saba Capital

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Bids eroding the London market and Saba Capital
Neil Shah of Edison Group discusses the latest bid for a UK company, Team Internet, which he discussed here recently as trading at a discount to its international peers. He points out that UK companies are vulnerable to takeover; the worry is that the UK market will keep shrinking, although he feels that value investing will return. With activist Saba Capital trying to replace the boards of 7 investment trusts, he feels that private investors must exercise their voting rights. Details are here on the AIC website. https://tinyurl.com/3ad9np9u.
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Neil Shah

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The Business of Film: Nosferatu, We Live In Time, The Six Triple Eight

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Nosferatu, We Live In Time, The Six Triple Eight
James Cameron-Wilson celebrates a healthy box office, up 42% YoY. New #1 Nosferatu is Robert Eggers' take on the 1922 Murnau classic with Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult. The design and photography is brilliant but the ripe dialogue caused giggles in the audience. At #3 is We Live In Time from the director of the brilliant Brooklyn. A non-linear telling of a relationship, James found it an amazing and rewarding emotional investment. On Netflix, he admired the Six Triple Eight, a surprisingly true WW2 tale of African American servicewomen in Europe. Although it's not subtle, it is very emotive and well-acted.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI failings, Meta abandoning fact checkers & bonkers CES products

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI failings, Meta abandoning fact checkers & bonkers CES products
In our tech show, Steve Caplin discusses some of the mistakes made by Apple's new AI and how Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. He reports on some of the devices on show at Las Vegas's annual CES. There's a TV to keep an eye on children and pets, a robot with an arm for picking up shoes and socks – slowly, a lamp that is also a projector, a toaster-like phone battery swapper, a giant monitor with a shoulder strap, a way to keep all your rechargeable batteries in order, an air purifier that doubles as a cat perch, and a tiny, cat-shaped robot for cooling your coffee. Only one of these tickles his fancy as a possible purchase.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: The Chancellor & the markets, the grooming inquiry call and Elon Musk & Reform

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The Chancellor & the markets, the grooming inquiry call and Elon Musk & Reform
Political commentator Mike Indian discusses the Chancellor's options in face of the rise in UK borrowing costs and fall in sterling. Will Keir Starmer retain confidence in her? His own future will be determined by her fate. He also addreses the grooming inquiry call and vote, worrying it all feels like too little too late. We owe it to the victims to see that the Jay Report's findings are implemented and that failings in the system need to be addressed. He also discusses Elon Musk's intervention and his relationship with Reform.
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Mike Indian

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The Business of Film: Mufasa – The Lion King, Better Man & Carry-On

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Mufasa – The Lion King, Better Man & Carry-On
James Cameron-Wilson celebrates box office soaring 113%, though he can't be dragged to #1 Sonic the Hedgehog 3. He finds the animation in the photo-realistic #2 Mufasa: The Lion King astonishing. A prequel and sequel modelled on Butch Cassidy it is wonderful, being both moving and very powerful. Better Man is a musical memoir of Robbie Williams with him narrating, though on screen he is represented as a chimpanzee. It's very original and inventive and is surprisingly engaging and moving. On Netflix James recommended Carry-On, a thriller with Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman which sucks you into the terrifying action.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Bigger Picture: The political economy of time, the new "New Right" and the economic case against EVs - 02 Jan 25

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The political economy of time, the new "New Right" and the economic case against EVs - 02 Jan 25
As 2025 begins, Professor Tim Evans takes the opportunity to discuss the political economy of seasonality and time and reflect upon the importance of time, which some political regimes have tried to amend. He feels we are starting to see the birth of a new "New Right", 45 years on from Reagan and Thatcher. While Milei, Trump and Farage have many different ideas, it appears that they are consulting each other, which might make 2025 a rollercoaster year. He also considers the unintended consequences of the push to electric vehicles, with a divide growing between those who have driveways (and cheap charging) and those who do not. If the US brings down the price of oil, the attraction for EVs will decline and further embolden those who oppose the rush to Net Zero.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: What might 2025 hold?

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: What might 2025 hold?
Russ Mould of A J Bell reckons the most significant number of 2024 was 193, the number of global interest rate cuts. For the most part, markets got what they wanted last year. But at the end, bond yields were telling a different message, one which equity markets didn't believe. As for the UK market, yes it's shrinking in terms of listings but it is relatively cheap despite a decent yield, lots of buybacks and M&A activity. Looking at the top 10 performers is yet another sign that investors should always consider what is unloved and he reminds us that 2/3 of FTSE100 earnings come from overseas.
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Russ Mould

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Gadgets & Gizmos: 40 years of mobile calls, finding lost luggage & weird patent applications

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: 40 years of mobile calls, finding lost luggage & weird patent applications
Steve Caplin kicks off the year by reminding us it is 40 years since the first mobile phone call: but do you remember the celebrity who made it? Motorised skis will get you up a mountain. Apple's AirTags could help you locate missing luggage. A Chinese spherical security robot put Steve in mind of The Prisoner. Chat robots add video but don't impress. You can play Xbox games on an Amazon Fire Stick. There's an electronic belt. And there's a roundup of some of the weirdest patent applications in 2024.
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Steve Caplin

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The Business of Fim: Kraven the Hunter, Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim & That Christmas

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Fim: Kraven the Hunter, Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim & That Christmas
With box office takings down once more, James Cameron-Wilson says that #5 Kraven the Hunter is the worst ever Marvel opening. It's a mixed bag but is often entertainingly ludicrous with Russell Crowe having fun as a Russian villain. He found the anime Lords of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim often utterly baffling but it got better as it went on, even if he never wants to see anything Lords of the Ring-related ever again. On Netflix, however, he warmed to the animated That Christmas, co-written by Richard Curtis. It's a sweet and sentimental tale aimed at the whole family that does what it says on the tin.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos 2024 Review: AI Grannies, butter made from air, spying air fryers and much more

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos 2024 Review: AI Grannies, butter made from air, spying air fryers and much more
Steve Caplin looks back over the good, bad, ugly and bonkers of the tech world in 2024. He admired the AI scam-baiting granny, the rocket that eats itself, the underwater kite, butter made from air and the benefits of red wine and dark chocolate. He wasn't keen on Chinese spying air fryers, the flamethrowing robot dog, the airline computer that couldn't cope with a 101-year-old and AI cheating at Diplomacy. And he is still scratching his head at the bike lane sweeper that sits behind the bike and the billionaire who wants to launch a replica Titanic.
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Steve Caplin

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