Justin Urquhart Stewart Weekly Update – Fangs & Filth

Justin is one of the most recognisable and trusted market commentators on television, radio, and in the press.

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Originally trained as a lawyer, he has observed the retail market industry for 20 years whilst at Barclays Stockbrokers and developed a unique understanding of the market’s roles and benefits for the private investor.

Each week we will bring you Justin’s latest thoughts and commentry.

FANGS & FILTH – Read the full article here.

Well last year, with the joy of hindsight, should have been very straightforward for the equity investor. All you actually needed to do was to get stuck into the FANGs and avoid the filth of having to deal with grubby stuff being pulled, drilled or sucked out of the ground.

The industry loves a good acronym, and for last year’s success an investment in the FANGs, namely Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, would have been a great call with a very satisfactory result. Then if you had avoided getting your hands dirty with anything to do with the extraction and commodity sector it would have saved you a considerable amount of grief. Those were the two key stories for 2016.

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