29 DECEMBER 1939, page 28

Finance And Investment

IT may seem odd, but it is happily true, that investors are entering 1940, after four months of war, not merely in a spirit of fortitude but with hope. Nor is the expectation of......

" Bats " And Dividend

So far the war has been kind to tobacco shareholders. Here is British American Tobacco, with its interests concen- trated in overseas markets, showing a profit for the year......

Building Society Problems

Shareholders and depositors of the leading building societies are looking to their chairmen this year to give them a reassurance on two of the main war problems affecting the......

Sugar Dividend Policy

Shareholders in Booker Bros., McConnell and Co., the old-established sugar growers, have had the good fortune to enjoy steadier dividends than has been the lot of most investors......

A Life Assurance Move That Enterprising Institution, The...

Fund and Life Assurance Society, has sprung a surprise on the insurance world. After much ratiocination of the kind one likes to associate with insurance men, who are also......