ILLUSTRATION BY KRYSTAL LOH
Friday will mark a double deadline for Arab-backed bids to buy Britain’s biggest online investment platform and a broadsheet newspaper where I used to work. Meanwhile, takeover decision day, to go formal or go away, has been extended for the Canadian potential buyers of one of my biggest investment trusts for tax-free income.
Elsewhere in the “forever fund”, shares in a Great British healthcare technology business have spiked 11 per cent higher since Swedish investors announced their stake. Oh, and last Monday a Danish brewer topped up its £3.3 billion knockout bid to buy the Hemel Hempstead-based soft drinks specialist, Britvic (stock market ticker: BVIC), putting some fizz back into Fever-Tree (FEVR), the London tonic-maker that served up the biggest cash profit I ever pocketed.