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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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