[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Retirement’s edging a little closer by the day and, in preparation, I’m nudging my portfolio away from growth and towards passive income. I plan to generate that income by investing in a spread high-quality dividend-paying blue-chip stocks. These are companies with strong balance sheets, reliable earnings and a history of rewarding shareholders. By carefully selecting shares with sustainable and growing dividends, I’m hoping to build a portfolio that should provide a steady stream of income for the rest of my life. It’s not without challenges though. Can these FTSE 100 shares secure my retirement? I’m…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The Diageo (LSE:DGE) share price continues to fall on Tuesday (4 January) as the company’s latest update is in. And it’s not hard to see why – results are uninspiring and the outlook is gloomy. Volumes are down, costs are up, and the impact of tariffs is likely to make this worse. I’m planning to stay the course with this one, but I wouldn’t blame anyone else for cutting their losses and moving on. Return to growth?! Debra Crew talked about the company’s return to growth, but investors have to look carefully to see what…
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[ad_1] The Russia–Ukraine war has thrown the commodities markets into chaos. At the beginning of March, oil hit $123 per barrel — up a staggering 68% this year. Since many assume the health of the Saudi economy is tied almost exclusively to this black gold, it came as little surprise when Standard & Poor’s (S&P) upgraded the country’s outlook from “stable” to “positive.” But contrary to the popular narrative, oil isn’t all that matters to the Saudi economy. As S&P stated, Saudi Arabia survived the “twin shocks” of the pandemic and the drop in oil demand and prices. As it…
[ad_1] Bottles of Diageo-owned Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky in a supermarket in Chelmsford, UK, on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSpirits maker Diageo said Tuesday that it is taking steps to deal with the potential impact of U.S. tariffs on key supply chain regions and has removed its medium-term guidance due to macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty.CEO Debra Crew said the prospect of tariffs could hamper the firm’s efforts to recover falling sales and that it had added “further complexity” to its ability to provide updated guidance.Diageo had previously forecast medium-term organic sales growth of between 5% and 7%.”We…
[ad_1] Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that did not for once focus on freezing government budgets or implementing the tenets of Project 2025.The order directed the Treasury and the Commerce Department to develop a plan for establishing a sovereign wealth fund, which Trump hopes will one day rival that of Saudi Arabia.“Eventually we’ll catch [up to] it,” he vowed.The president also suggested such a fund could buy a 50 percent…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images A chart showing Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) shares between early 2020 and mid-2023 resembles a Himalayan mountain. There’s the tech-fuelled rise during the pandemic. Then the steep drop starting in late 2021 when rising inflation and interest rates came to the fore. However, since bottoming out at 628p in May 2023, the stock has been on the up again. Now at 1,040p, it has real momentum, gaining 19.1% in just the past three months, far outpacing the FTSE 100‘s 5% rise. This means a £20k investment made at the start of November would…
[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Goldman Sachs has slashed the investment minimum by 90 per cent for a new alumni vehicle that will put money into the Wall Street bank’s private market funds.The bank is fundraising for its 1869 programme, which takes its name from the year Goldman was founded, and follows a similar fund raised in 2022, according to people briefed on the matter. The latest vehicle, like its predecessor, is a fund of funds that will invest across multiple private market vehicles managed by…
[ad_1] For many, the main point of investing is to generate higher returns than the overall market. But the main game is to find enough winners to more than offset the losers So we wouldn’t blame long term ORBIS AG (ETR:OBS) shareholders for doubting their decision to hold, with the stock down 26% over a half decade. With that in mind, it’s worth seeing if the company’s underlying fundamentals have been the driver of long term performance, or if there are some discrepancies. Check out our latest analysis for ORBIS While the efficient markets hypothesis continues to be taught by…