The business of space has arrived, impacting our everyday lives for the better.?Space is the new industrial revolution- transforming all industries and addressing humanity's biggest challenges from climate change to global security, creating a better earth. With a market forecast to reach $1 trillion by 2030 , there is no sector or technology that space innovation won?t impact.?The space sector is

Shares in Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT) have nearly doubled from a low of 29p last November but are still a long way off their initial public offering (IPO) price of 100p.The trust?s share price has been volatile post-pandemic as investors ?fell out of love? with blue-sky stocks like Seraphim, which made its stock market debut in the summer of 2021, but over the past three months interest

Unless they own shares in investment trusts, most readers probably will not have heard of the phrase 'continuation vote', and there is a chance a good many who do own investment trusts may be unfamiliar with them too.However, as the recent ups and (mostly) downs at music royalty fund Hipgnosis Songs Fund (SONG) have demonstrated, continuation votes can be literally a make-or-break event for trusts

I think the legendary US investor Warren Buffett once said, 'an investor must understand a company's products and its business model before making an investment' which loosely translates to 'buy what you know'.I tried to adopt this strategy when filling my SIPP (self-invested investment plan) in 2019 after combining several smaller pension pots from former employers.WHAT IS IN MY SIPP?I chose a mi

Whether or not you are a value investor by nature, we all get a kick out of finding companies which are trading on big discounts to 'fair value'.Rather like Warren Buffett, who claims he buys dollar stocks for 50 cents, we all like to think we can spot a bargain.The problem is identifying fair value, first, then having the courage of our convictions to go for it, second.In the investment trust wor

Imagine you've been given the choice of investing in three companies. You can choose one of two batches with the intention of holding them for at least five years.The first batch features a rat catcher, a provider of emergency telephones for lifts and a trucking company carrying small loads across the US. Sounds boring, right?The second batch features an American cruise line operator. You also get

Satellite firm Virgin Orbit's (VORB:NASDAQ) filing to the SEC on the day it announced it was entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection laid bare the mountain the company had been trying to scale.The company expected revenues for 2022 to be in the region of $30 million but overall Virgin Orbit expected to post a loss more than six times that figure.Space is an expensive business; in the past the hu

- Shares fallen over 14% over the six months- Made £13.4 million worth of investments- Pre-tax loss for first half of £17.3 million'The market has overly discounted the share price', the CEO and co-founder of Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT) Mark Boggett tells Shares.Over the six months ending 31 December 2022, Seraphim shares fell 14.7% from 53.0p to 45.2p, as the global financial markets

According to fabled US stock market trader Jessie Livermore 'the big swings make the big money'.Livermore was used by Edwin Lefervre as the basis for the character of Larry Livingstone in his investment classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. The bestselling book, dedicated to his memory, was published a century ago but this same truth of the importance of the big picture is evident in the domi