Friday Email: 02 May 2014

Every Friday morning our lead analyst Mark Riding sends out his weekly run-down and upcoming events in the investor calendar, like this one:

The FTSE 100 has been on the rise this week having gone up over 100 points. Our latest research on Admiral has proved a success so far and we have almost recovered the ex-dividend factor already. It was another quiet week on the results front with the biggest dividend increase coming from Whitbread who continue to prosper. The fight for AstraZeneca has begun and it is now the top performer in the model portfolio overtaking Anglo American.

The week ahead has some interesting companies reporting including Aberdeen Asset Management, Experian, Sainsbury, Imperial Tobacco, BT and Sage. It will be interesting to see how Aberdeen get on. They have had a superb dividend track record of late and it will be interesting to see if they can keep it going. We will also be watching Sainsbury's closely to see if they are still outperforming their peers.

The market still remains difficult as we enter a time of the year when returns to investors are not very good historically. We will continue to seek out value and pass our ideas onto members.

This email was originally sent on Friday 02 May 2014

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