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• Up, up and away. Dan Coatsworth and the Shares team look at the latest wave of stock market flotations and show you how to sort the flyers from the flops, in our Cover Story of the week.

• Plan for a bright future. Sipps offer a flexible way to save for your retirement. Building a retirement nest egg is a necessity if you want to secure a comfortable dotage for you and your family. The phased introduction of auto-enrolment means more of us will be putting at least a little something aside for when we retire, but the SIPP could be your route to a brighter, and potentially earlier, retirement. Tom Sieber investigates.

• Warm to hot properties; offshore trusts and Reits prove that real estate does not have to be a taxing portfolio option. Mark Dunne reports on the two ways by which private investors can gain tax-efficient access to the rising valuations on offer in the UK’s commercial property market in this weeks, ‘The Big Debate’.

• Paul Venables, Finance Director of the recruitment corporation, Hays come under the spotlight this week in our regular Griller feature; in which he outlines their current market position and his expectations for the future.
Get the full picture on these stories and more in the current issue of Shares.

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Plus, in-depth reports and analysis on:

• Opinion – Banks to run with the bulls
• Agenda – Report to rock pension system
• Plays – Halfords gets into gear
• Diary – The week ahead
• Under the bonnet – Merlin set to impress
• Commodities – Logbaba lifts Victoria Oil & Gas
• Cover Story – Up, up and away
• SIPPS Feature – Plan for a bright future
• Shares4Schools – Castle Rushen storms the leaderboard
• Fight for your rights – NetDimensions reels in reward
• What you are saying – Let us know your thoughts
• Director Deals – Tate & Lyle leaves sour taste
• The Big Debate – Warm to hot properties
• Forex – Loonie is on a roll
• Fixed Income Focus – Find the right fund
• Griller – Hays is just the job
• Funds – Place trust in a portfolio
• Databank – The best and worst performers
• Small Caps – Renew to fight the floods
• Mr Market – Gold to shine again
• Chartist – Smoothing the bumps and dips
• Investor Services Directory
• Index
• Plus, much, more...

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If you need regularly updated, trusted market intelligence on STOCKS (Large, Mid and Small Cap), BONDS, FUNDS, FOREX, CFDs, ETFs and much more besides, then Shares is your best resource.
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