A premier league return from football; Unilever; and Hurricane Energy - all in today's Daily Newsletter from Master Investor

Follow this link if this email is not displaying correctly DAILY BULLETIN Tuesday 21 February 2017 Make a premier league return from football finance by Richard Gill, CFA | Equities | 5 mins. to read My first blog on Football & Economics, published just over two years ago, discussed how billions of pounds, euros and dollars have been poured into the beautiful game over the past few years. A number of recent reports and statistics have demonstrated that there are few signs of this trend reversing: - Driven by the £5.136 billion TV rights package agreed by FTSE 100 firms Sky (LON:SKY) and BT (LON:BT.A) in 2015, Premier League clubs once again spent a record amount of money on transfer fees this season. Spending on players in the summer transfer window hit £1.165 billion, with 13 teams breaking their individual player transfer records. - Further splurges in the January window took total spending up from the previous record of £1.045 billion last season to a new all-time high of £1.38 billion for 2016/17 – that's round about the same as the total annual GDP of San Marino. - Deloitte's recent Football Money League 2017 report showed aggregate revenue for the top 20 clubs worldwide up by 12% to €7.4 billion (£5.5 billion) in 2015/16, a new record, with three clubs breaking the €600 million revenue barrier. Manchester United topped the survey, making revenues of €689 million – the highest annual revenue posted by a football club in history.... Click here to read the full story LATEST STORIES FROM OUR BLOG Dollar strength makes Unilever a no-brainer for US rivals by Robert Stephens | Equities | 5 mins. to read Kraft Heinz's bid for Unilever (LON:ULVR) will not be the last takeover approach for the Anglo-Dutch business, in my opinion.   Click here to read the full story Hurricane Energy: Rising trend channel pointing towards 70p by Zak Mir | Trading | 1 min. to read I have to admit that after conducting rigorous research for today's coverage of Hurricane Energy (LON:HUR), my impression that this was a company worth around £50m turned out to be rather on the low side.   Click here to read the full story What does the decline in correlations among asset classes mean? by Filipe R. Costa | Economics | 4 mins. to read One of the worst enemies of a serious long-term investor is a high level of correlation.   Click here to read the full story Warren will not agree by Evil Knievil | Evil Diaries | 1 min. to read The Kraft Heinz bid for Unilever (LON:ULVR) is quite interesting. When preparing for a bid like this it is wise to canvass major shareholders well in advance of parking one's tanks on the oppo's lawns.   Click here to read the full story Westminster: Wedge breakout anticipated by Zak Mir | Trading | 1 min. to read I have to admit that the Twitterati I follow are increasingly an excellent source of charting material. At the very least they provide situations such as Westminster Group (LON:WSG), which one can then investigate.   Click here to read the full story QUOTE OF THE DAY "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."                                                 Adam Smith SPECIAL OFFER FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS MASTER INVESTOR VIDEO EXCLUSIVE LATEST EDITION OUT NOW SyndicateRoom - Invest with the pros Time to short Google? - Jim Mellon thinks so... Tom Stephenson's big four - Four funds to exploit global trends in 2017 The twilight of the bankers - And the rise of the fintech usurpers AIM IPO superstars - The new issues making waves for investors Click here to download as PDF   Click here to read online Master Investor Ltd. Suite 88, 22 Notting Hill Gate London, W11 3JE T: +44 7515 542707 E: swen@masterinvestor.co.uk Share the newsletter: Follow us: Copyright © 2017 Master Investor Ltd, All rights reserved. Master Investor is a trading name of Master Investor Ltd. Material contained within Master Investor Magazine and its website is for general information purposes only and is not intended to be relied upon by individual readers in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment decisions. Master Investor Ltd. does not accept any liability for any losses suffered by any user as a result or any such descision. If a Daily Bulletin is too frequent, why not opt in to our once weekly mailing list for a round up of the week's news. Want to change how you receive these emails? Why did I get this | Unsubscribe from this list | Update subscription preferences