In today's episode Adrian Lawrence one of our CFO's discusses the new Department for International Trade grant to boost SME's exports, its a match funded grant of between £1,000 and £9,000 being 40% or 50% of eligible spend depending on the location of your business.   What it supports are things such as attending international trade shows, Geo-targeted SEO, professional fees and related areas such as Intellectual property and translation services.

Its a great scheme and the team at FD Capital have already gotten our first client application approved.  

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Internationalisation Grants

Podcast covering news from the team at reporting accounts on 23rd January 2021.   In this podcast Adrian Lawrence our resident financial professional taks about Covid and how the UK is being impacted but the prospect of the current lockdown lasting into March or April, and possibly longer.

The London stock market did not react very well to the potential longer lockdown and as stocks are valued on the market expectation of future earnings prices fell back.  It is hard to say what will happen at the moment, clearly there will be big relief once this pandemic has passed but until then uncertainly will continue to mean the market will he volatile.

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RA 23rd Jan 2021

In this Podcast Adrian Lawrence our in house finance professional talks about the concept of a living Pension, this is similar to the idea of a real living wage, which is higher than the national living wage version.

A living pension as the name suggests is enough money to live on in returement without having to struggle financially.  In the UK there is the state pension which is not much and is capped at the maximum if you have 35 years of contributions, and the auto-enrolment pension which currently is made up of 5% employee (after 1% tax relief) and 3% employers being 8% in total.   Auto Enrolment is based on a band of earnings and only applies if you are 21 or older.

The actual level of contributions someone needs to make at age 25 to get a good pension is 12% of all earnings.  So the concept of the living pension is that employees and employers sign up to paying enough to get a proper pension.

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RA Living Pension

Adrian Lawrence our financial experts talks in today's podcast about Dyson and its claim for £200m in damages against Europe.  The claim is based on lost sales as a result of flawed tests which favoured convential vacuum cleaners.   To learn more about Reporting Accounts visit our website https://www.reportingaccounts.com

Dyson in the news

In today's podcast Adrian Lawrence talks about Rolls Royce and how its Aero engines division has been impacted by the pandemic, today it announced a further £2billion of expected revenue shortfalls caused by the new Covid mutant version and the long and more restrictive travel measures announced both in the UK and USA.

The company has a great reputation and a recovery in its fortunes will come in time, but that is now further in the future than anticipated even a few weeks ago, and hence the Rolls Royce shrare price has dipped.

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Rolls Royce

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how smaller investors in the Wallstreetbets sub group have banded together to drive up the share price of Gamestop and have literally driven it through the roof.

This is a stock that many hedge funds were short selling and therefore will have taken heavy losses as they attempt to buy the stock back.

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It is a great story of how the small investor has out played Wall Street but the very high price most likely spells losses for the small investors concerned when the stock returns to more normal levels.

Reddit Day Traders

In today's podcast Adrian Lawrence talks about the IPO of Dr Martens the UK bootmaker whose IPO was a great success on Friday, their shares were priced at £3.70, they opened at £4.25 and closed at £4.50 which is a 22% profit on their first day alone.

They have an almost iconic brand, but nevertheless came close to going bust a few years ago prior to being acquired by a private equity house.

Its great news as more IPO's are coming to the London market including Moonpig.

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Dr Martens Floats

Lookers the UK car dealership group saw its shares unsuspended and jump by 83% on Friday as it announced better than expected trading.

The company has been through a tough time over the last year, hit by an accounting fraud scandal which led to the departure of its CFO and chairman and the departure of its auditors.

Hopefully this puts the past behind it now and its share price will be interesting to watch over the next weeks ahead of the UK lockdown ending.  To learn more about Reporting Accounts visit our website at https://www.reportingaccounts.com

Lookers

In this episode Adrian talks about the success that Hargreaves Lansdown have announced in the recruitment of younger investors.

The lockdown in the UK means people have more time to research investment and less opportunity to spend money as the shops and restaurants are shut.  Visit https://www.reportingaccounts.com to learn more about our service and how we have insights covering more than 4.8million UK companies.

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