Equities in London made an underwhelming start to the week, in a sign of investor unease ahead of a key few days on the fiscal and monetary policy fronts.A pre-election budget will be the key event in the UK this week. Eyes will be on whether UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will size up some tax relief. In the eurozone, focus will be on the European Central Bank?s interest rate decision on Thursday....

THIS IS AN ADVERTISING PROMOTIONPetro Matad (MATD:AIM), Bacanora Lithium (BCNA:AIM), Anglo Pacific Group (APF), SolGold (SOLG) and Yellow Cake (YCA:AIM). What do these companies have in common? They have all partnered with PrimaryBid to enable retail participation in their fundraisings.Why does this matter? While many companies have wanted to include retail investors when raising capital, the...

Sometimes investors ignore funds which have accumulated a limited amount of funds from investors, often because they are seen as not having much of a future due to a lack of scale or just because they don't have the marketing budgets of the big asset managers.However, ignoring these smaller funds could mean neglecting some potentially interesting investment options.VICTIMS OF SUCCESSWhile we...

The first three months of 2021 have been the busiest quarter for initial public offerings (IPOs) for a decade, and the trend shows no sign of slowing this quarter, which is good news for retail investors looking for hot new ideas.According to analysts at Liberum, £5.9 billion was raised by companies coming to market for the first time in the first quarter, and despite the car-crash that...