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    Neil Collins

    Former financial markets commentator

    Neil Collins has been writing about business, finance and economics nearly all his working life. He was City Editor of the Daily Telegraph for 19 years.

    He wrote the On London column on Saturdays and sits on the boards of two investment trust companies.

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    • Friday, 20 September, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Time for a Pac-Man defence from London Stock Exchange

      It is hard to argue that a combined business would be better off run from Hong Kong

    • Friday, 13 September, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      An alternative to ‘helicopter money’ is already here

      The risk to such policies is not inflation, but politics

    • Friday, 6 September, 2019
      Inside LondonSovereign bonds
      Risk-free bonds threaten to be return-free, too

      Investors should target the glaring mismatch between equity and debt pricing

    • Friday, 30 August, 2019
      Inside LondonPayment protection insurance
      We’ll miss PPI refunds, a form of QE for the masses

      Total cost to UK banks has now passed £48bn, including £12.5bn spent on admin

    • Friday, 23 August, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      ‘Greater fool’ theory drives weird world of negative yields

      Lending at a loss only makes sense if there are other buyers willing to risk bigger hits

    • Friday, 9 August, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Retail landlord Intu is overdue a reality check

      Property company’s ‘transformational’ strategy looks overly optimistic in current climate

    • Friday, 19 July, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Reckitt Benckiser still has much to answer over DoJ indictment

      Company’s efforts to put prosecution behind it an example of rotten corporate practice

    • Friday, 12 July, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      CYBG’s executive pay review set to shut out ordinary investors

      Fund managers in line to be consulted benefit from big remuneration packages themselves

    • Friday, 5 July, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      UK challenger banks descend from hype to reality

      Taking on the big lenders is proving much more difficult than investors assumed

    • Friday, 28 June, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      British stocks defy the gloomy headlines

      FTSE is only 9% short of its peak and has made a strong recovery since December’s woes

    • Friday, 21 June, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Neil Woodford saga the latest to show FCA in a poor light

      Other scandals have also demonstrated that the regulator is not up to the task

    • Friday, 14 June, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Woodford affair has exposed the funds liquidity illusion

      Woes compounded by difficulty of establishing value of underlying investments

    • Friday, 7 June, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      While Royal Dutch Shell gives, the UK takes away

      Zero emissions target would cost £1tn, forcing cuts in health and education spending

    • Friday, 31 May, 2019
      Inside LondonUK companies
      Aviva’s confused plan will show that breaking up is hard to do 

      New boss signals a total strategic reversal but the insurer has deeper problems

    • Friday, 24 May, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Imaginative powers of remuneration consultants know no bounds

      In theory, shareholders can vote down remuneration reports. In practice, it is almost unknown

    • Friday, 17 May, 2019
      Inside LondonHS2
      UK infrastructure needs more action and fewer promises

      We seem incapable of choosing big projects that offer value for money

    • Friday, 10 May, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Metro Bank lacks market nous to challenge big lenders

      Strategy of opening branches while everyone else is closing them is not working

    • Friday, 3 May, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Big financial players reap rewards of Sainsbury’s failure

      Power has shifted from the users of the capital markets to those providing the capital

    • Friday, 26 April, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Schroders’ family ties will help it retain a long view

      Leonie Schroder is the fifth generation since the company was founded in 1804

    • Saturday, 13 April, 2019
      Inside LondonInvestments
      Diversification trumps returning capital to shareholders

      Ambitious chiefs put their own interests first as Apple’s pivot into entertainment shows

    • Friday, 5 April, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Babcock can still find its way out of deep water

      UK’s Ministry of Defence still engaged in its usual fantasy financing

    • Friday, 29 March, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Amigo Loans’ sliding share price shows pitfalls of ‘guarantees’

      This week’s low of 145p reflects market’s worry of what tougher times can bring

    • Friday, 22 March, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      GAM’s decline stands as a cautionary tale on liquidity

      Holdings in illiquid bonds made things even worse for the Swiss-based fund manager

    • Friday, 8 March, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Vodafone borrowing from Peter to pay Paul

      Mandatory convertible bond has more bells and whistles than a one-man band

    • Saturday, 2 March, 2019
      Inside LondonUK equities
      Ill-timed gong for Metro ignores bank’s challenges

      Upstart’s capability in doubt as lender seeks to plug capital hole

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