NatWest and Lloyds Banking project to be dividend kings as bad debt outlook improves
The PRA will make its announcement on dividend guidelines for the banking sector in the next few months. The signs are looking good for banking stocks to reclaim their reputation as dividend demons.
We are in the UK banking results season and generally, the banks are either feeling better about bad debts or reporting improving trends.
The latter basically means things are still a bit hairy out there but the situation is not deteriorating as quickly as in the preceding quarter.
Meanwhile, all of the major UK-listed banks are ship-shape and Bristol fashion when it comes to common equity tier 1 (CET1) ratios – a measure of their balance sheet strengths.
Warren Buffett is an investment genius. But these UK fund managers have beaten him
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Billionaire US investor Warren Buffett is famed both for his fortune and his folksy words of wisdom. Nobody disputes the abilities of the grand old man of investing, but that doesn’t make him invincible.
If he was, we should all buy shares in his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle, and let him get on with it. Yet we don’t. There will always be pretenders to Warren Buffett’s crown, and a surprising number reside on these shores.
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The Lloyds share price is flying! Should I buy LLOY today?
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Exactly one year ago, I suggested the
Lloyds(LSE: LLOY) share price could double investors’ money if a significant second wave of the coronavirus was avoided. We all know how that turned out.
Maybe this suggestion wasn’t too fanciful. After all, Lloyds’ valuation is a lot higher now than it was back then. It’s climbed another 4% in value today, following an encouraging Q1 trading update.
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City A.M. checked in with a number of prominent Square Mile-based fund mangers to find out where they see opportunities for growth as London’s investment community is slowly shaking off the pandemic.