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Magazine - 04 Dec 2014

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Chartist

Hitch a ride with leisure firms

A tour operator and a cruise specialist look interesting from a technical perspective

Commodities

High hopes for Gemfields

Miner believes imminent ruby auction results should beat previous event

Cover Story

Best-Performing Investment Trusts

We reveal the best-performing investment trusts and the secrets to their success

Small Caps

Databank

The Best & Worst Performers: FTSE 350, Global Market, Commodities, Forex, Sovereign Yields

Diary

Preview: Carpetright

Director Deals

Director Dealings: Top buys and sells

Plays

Director Deals

Uncertainty dogs LonCap

Convertible bonds create potential stock overhang

Feature

The power of the annual report

We explain the importance of the document and which bits are essential to read

Fight For Your Rights

BG is left red-faced

Shareholders succeed in lowering pay deal for new boss of FTSE 100 oil producer

Sector Reports

Trend Pharma’s friend

There is more than one way to play the medicine boom

Director Deals

Gas-fired Genel

Do not follow director selling at Kurdistan producer

Feature

Putting your passions in your pension

We look at some of the more exotic investments you can hold in your SIPP

Forex

Euro under the cosh

Both the single currency and the Aussie dollar to struggle against greenback

Funds

Home, sweet home

Collective opens up residential property market to investors

Griller

New Premier cost focus

Former finance boss responds to oil price slump following a move into the hot seat

News

News in brief: Axiom European Financial Debt, Smurfit Kappa, ITE, Victrex, Ceres Power, VP, Private & Commercial Finance

Opinion

Micro cap madness

Don't get carried away by the big share price gains among the smallest end of the market

The Big Debate

Concentrate or diversify?

Diversification is inversely related to skill, more or less

Under The Bonnet

Pie in the Sky

Do not bank on Vodafone bid for pressured broadcaster

News

Chart of week: Warm to Vernalis

Cough-cold treatments to turn a profit in 2017

News

Cyclicals still cheap

Defensive stocks at a four decade premium to their cyclical counterparts

News

Give Mothercare a wide berth

Risks facing maternity products seller remain considerable

News

Balfour's rocky road

Builder remains beset by uncertainty even as government flags new roads initiative

News

Kennedy Wilson's Euro push

£1.3 billion war chest to invest in places like Italy and Spain

News

Crude recovery play

EnQuest is highly geared to oil and would benefit from an uplift in the market

News

Relief shortlived for bookies

Future of betting machines is still unclear

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