Dave Baxter

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Dave Baxter

When the news reached Canada in May 1945 that the German army had surrendered, and the threat and horrors of the Nazi regime had finally been defeated, Canadians from coast to coast took to the streets to celebrate. And as they often do in times of joy and jubilation, Winnipeggers gathered that day at the intersection of Portage and Main.

1 month ago | investorschronicle.co.uk | Dave Baxter

Portfolio Clinic: A reader has a good pension provision and wants to change up his Isa and take less riskPublished on May 2, 2025Those fortunate enough to have a final-salary pension have less of a pressing need to generate retirement income than others. But even if meeting your expenditure is not a concern, it is always worth making sure that all your assets are in order. Graham, 75, and his 73-year-old wife Vivien find themselves in such a position.

1 month ago | investorschronicle.co.uk | Dave Baxter

A look at the big beasts of the S&P 500 gives a pretty clear impression of how a tech fund might have fared so far this year. All the Magnificent Seven stocks are down year to date for 2025 as at 28 April, ranging from a 6 per cent loss (in US dollar terms) for Meta (US:META) to falls of 16 per cent for Apple (US:AAPL), 19 per cent for Nvidia (US:NVDA) and 29 per cent for Tesla (US:TSLA). Anyone who has loaded up on such stocks is in for some pain, at least in the short term.

1 month ago | investorschronicle.co.uk | Dave Baxter

Retail investors have used the market volatility of the past month to buy stocks on the cheap, putting them at odds with more cautious professionals. Hargreaves Lansdown, Interactive Investor and AJ Bell all pointed to heightened levels of activity from their customers in April, with many seemingly buying during the tariff-induced sell-off. While this will relate partly to the tax year-end, platforms nevertheless saw plenty of activity seemingly related to the sell-off.

1 month ago | investorschronicle.co.uk | Dave Baxter

The recent turmoil in markets has driven dividend yields on infrastructure investment trusts to elevated levels, but there are still plenty of issues for these portfolios to contend with. The average share price dividend yield for trusts in the Association of Investment Companies Infrastructure sector stood at almost 7 per cent on 11 April, Stifel analysts have noted, not far off a high previously hit in October 2023.