Cosy cheerleader counts the cost | Business - The Times

June 20, 2019 at 06:48AM

June 20 2019, 12:01am, The Times

Cosy cheerleader counts the cost | Business - The Times

That's print deadlines for you: always a risk that whatever's published gets overtaken by events. So newspaper journos, in particular, might sympathise with whoever was responsible for June's edition of Investment Times.

Heard of it? The "acclaimed investment magazine" from Hargreaves Lansdown: the one read apparently by more than 400,000 investors. It included "The Wealth 50 Report", the platform's top picks from what chief executive Chris Hill calls "a universe of more than 3,000 funds". A top 50 star? The Woodford Equity Income Fund, of course.

Here's how the Hargreaves write-up started: "Neil Woodford thinks there's never been a better time to invest in unloved UK companies." And while there was a reference to some "tough times" recently, the piece was topped with a quote…

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June 20 2019, 12:01am, The Times

Cosy cheerleader counts the cost | Business - The Times

That's print deadlines for you: always a risk that whatever's published gets overtaken by events. So newspaper journos, in particular, might sympathise with whoever was responsible for June's edition of Investment Times.

Heard of it? The "acclaimed investment magazine" from Hargreaves Lansdown: the one read apparently by more than 400,000 investors. It included "The Wealth 50 Report", the platform's top picks from what chief executive Chris Hill calls "a universe of more than 3,000 funds". A top 50 star? The Woodford Equity Income Fund, of course.

Here's how the Hargreaves write-up started: "Neil Woodford thinks there's never been a better time to invest in unloved UK companies." And while there was a reference to some "tough times" recently, the piece was topped with a quote…

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