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Unilever
Unilever, the consumer goods giant,http://users.atw.hu/promotionscorp/index.php?site=forum_topic&topic=16663cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, whose products include Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, PG Tips tea bags and Persil washing powder, ticks all the boxes. Its products are always in demand, being purchased by millions of consumers every day. Terry Smith, the no-nonsense manager of the Fundsmith Equity fund, manages money in a very similar way to Mr Buffett. Mr Smith buys companies that make their money from everyday, repeatable transactions and thinks Unilever fits the bill. It is one of his top holdings in his fund.

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Reckitt Benckiser
The chances are that you have one or more of this firm’s products in your household. Its brands include Strepsils, the throat medicine sweets, Clearasil, the skin care cream, and Vanish, the stain remover. Carl Stick, who manages the Rathbone Income fund, says the company is a &#x201crice-setter”, while many of its smaller competitors are &#x201crice-takers” that lack control over their own pricing. In other words,Kicksokok.com, Reckitt can raise the prices of its products without seeing its customers switch to cheaper brands. “This is a fantastic buy-and-hold business that has market-leading brands in all of the fields in which it operates,” Mr Stick says.
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Diageo
Diageo, the world’s biggest drinks company,cheap wholesale jordans, seems unlikely to be knocked off its perch any time soon. The firm’s products include Gordon’s Gin, Smirnoff vodka,http://www.wiski.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3812150cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, Johnnie Walker whisky, Guinness and Baileys. Its products are sold in virtually every country. Nick Train,cheap real jordans, another fund manager whose investment style resembles Mr Buffett’s, says that Diageo offers “exceptional” predictability. Mr Train, who manages the Lindsell Train Global Equity fund and the Finsbury Growth & Income investment trust, describes Diageo as a “buy and forget” stock. “Its products are likely still to be consumed in 25 years’ time,” he says. “If the company can succeed in at least maintaining or preferably increasing the price of its products above inflation, then you have the basis for a wonderful long-term holding.”
British American Tobacco
Some may feel uncomfortable investing in a tobacco company,http://users.atw.hu/team-axone/index.php?site=forum_topic&topic=13892cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, but these firms have pricing power thanks to their strong brands. According to Bruce Stout, who manages the popular Murray International investment trust, this makes British American Tobacco a share to buy and hold for the long term. Cigarette packet sales are on the decline, but Mr Stout says the firm was still able to raise prices because of the strong brand names in its stable, which include Lucky Strike and Dunhill. ‘‘Thanks to its dominance the firm is able to keep expanding its margins despite the fact that sales are falling and will continue to do so. But to mitigate this the firm is expanding into the e‑cigarettes market, particularly in the emerging markets, so I think it will continue to have a unique competitive advantage,” Mr Stout says.



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Roche
The Swiss pharmaceutical company has increased its dividend for the past 28 years. This reliability is one of the reasons for the company being among the most widely held shares with European fund managers. But some prominent British investors are also big fans. Neil Woodford, the highly regarded manager of the Woodford Equity Income fund, has held shares in Roche for several years. He says that he considered Roche to be a “great business” to hold for the long term. Shares in companies listed overseas can nowadays be bought easily via online investment shops, usually for the same dealing fee that applies to UK-listed shares, although many firms charge a commission for foreign currency conversion.
Procter & Gamble
The American company behind Gillette razors, Fairy Liquid and Pampers has increased its dividend for the past 58 years. This statistic alone makes a compelling argument for holding the shares for decades. Hugh Yarrow, who runs the top performing Evenlode Income fund, says only companies with pricing power could be held forever. “Procter & Gamble has one of the strongest franchises in the world, making it resilient to different economic conditions,” Mr Yarrow says. “Its brands will still be going strong in decades to come.”
Coca-Cola
The global drinks giant, listed in America, has been one of Mr Buffett’s biggest bets since he first bought shares in the company in 1988. At the time Mr Buffett said he planned to hold the shares for a “long time”. He noted that Coca-Cola’s brand name and products gave it an enormous competitive advantage. The company remains one of Mr Buffett’s biggest investments and is perhaps one of the businesses the legendary investor had in mind when he came up with one of his most memorable quotes two decades ago: “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favourite holding period is forever.”

Bloomsbury
Paul Mumford, who has been a fund manager for more than 25 years and has worked in investment since the Sixties, named Bloomsbury, the book publisher, as the one share he would be prepared to buy and hold forever. Mr Mumford, who runs the Cavendish Opportunities fund, says people would still be reading books in one form or another in 50 years’ time, which is why he believes Bloomsbury is a company that never needs to be sold.“Many investment sectors are prone to change,” Mr Mumford says. “I cannot pick an oil company because they could run out of oil in two decades,cheap jordans online, while similarly a pharmaceutical firm cannot guarantee that it will invent new drugs, but people will still be reading books.”
Microsoft
Owned by one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates (pictured), Microsoft is another household name that should stand the test of time. The company has large reserves of cash and is expected to increase its dividend payments in the coming years, having done so every year since 2004. Mr Smith holds Microsoft in his Fundsmith Equity fund, where it has been one of the top five contributors to performance in each of the past two years.

L’Oreal
French cosmetics giant L’Oréal is a popular choice with some European fund managers, who may have been drawn by the firm’s impressive dividend record; it has raised its payouts to shareholders for the past 26 years. David Dudding, who manages the top-performing Threadneedle European Select fund, says he could not see a day when the firm’s shampoo products would stop being bought by millions of consumers. As a result, he says that he plans to keep investing in the firm for many years to come. He adds: “Most people tend to buy the same shampoo and beer, either through loyalty towards the brand or for convenience. This makes the company a fantastic investment for the long term.”
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I’m a naturally polarising character,” declares Paloma Faith. “People are either like ‘She’s the most annoying person on earth’ or ‘Oh my God, I want to be with you all the time,jordan shoes, you’re magnetic’. It’s just one or the other.”


Her laughter has something of the brash, brassy chuckle of a young Barbara Windsor. “I quite like myself – I don’t care if anyone else does or not.”


Faith is certainly one of Britain’s most flamboyant and outspoken pop stars, a combination unlikely to endear her to everyone. She plays brash, theatrical pop that draws on vintage soul and disco, dresses in an eccentric mishmash of thrift-shop fashion and arty haute couture and offers opinions on anything from politics to child-rearing in a distinctive, East End accent accompanied by twinkly smiles and little gusts of laughter that make you question how seriously she expects you to take it all.


On the day of our interview, one of my colleagues at The Daily Telegraph had named Faith the “worst dressed” at the Q Awards ceremony, where she turned up in a red-and-white-striped, flared jumpsuit with metal jewellery strapped to her chin. “I thought I looked amazing,cheap jordans,” she says huffily, then cackles with laughter. “At least they noticed I was there.”


Meanwhile,cheap jordans for sale, the comments Faith made while walking the red carpet led to sceptical headlines about the 36-year-old pop singer’s decision to raise her 10-month-old baby to be “gender neutral”.









Faith returns this month with her new album, The Architect






“Oh, please!” she says, rolling her eyes. “I was talking about allowing children to wear colours and play with toys irrespective of stereotypes, which was how I was raised. My favourite toy growing up was a He-Man with glitter on his chest. Which probably explains a lot.”


She always refers to her child, with French artist Leyman Lahcine, as “the baby” for reasons that have nothing to do with gender politics.


“I’ve had letters sent around by a good lawyer to say I don’t want any mention of the gender or any photos printed. I’m just trying to juggle being a mum with keeping the baby completely out of the public eye. I don’t know how that will work, but I’m going to do my best.”


Faith is about to release her fourth album, The Architect, and beneath the confident bluster, she does seem nervous about its reception. “It is the album I’ve always wanted to make, the one closest to my heart. So I’m worried it’s going to be a car crash.”


She has been working on it for the past two years, during which time she also appeared as a judge on talent show The Voice. “It was quite scary. I wasn’t sure if I trusted myself not to put my foot in it. I mean, I know what I’m like. I gabble, I say the wrong things to the wrong people. I’m fine among people who love me, but I couldn’t watch myself on TV!”




The Voice (which this year moved from the BBC to ITV with different judges) has been a viewing success but has a terrible track record when it comes to creating stars,cheap authentic jordans.


“There’s no system in place to support the artists,” says Faith. “It’s just like, all right, we’ve finished filming, off you go. Simon Cowell supports the people on his shows [The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent]. He’s emotionally invested in making it work because he doesn’t want to ever be defeated. I don’t think there’s anyone else doing that.”


Faith has a degree in contemporary dance and, before she was scouted by a record label, was studying for an MA in theatre design and direction, funding herself with part-time jobs, including sales assistant at Agent Provocateur, singer in a burlesque cabaret, bartender, life model and magician’s assistant. “I did music for fun. I’ve always said yes to every opportunity that’s come my way. That’s why I’ve got an insane CV.”




When we meet for lunch, she is wearing an elaborately brocaded pink and blue cardigan over a floral-print dress. With piled up bleach blonde hair and loud red lipstick, she looks every inch a star, but points out that she dressed like this before she became famous.


“I’d turn up in a ball gown to pour pints in a bar job. I don’t like mundanity.” She comes from a long line of “pretty fabulous women” and her mother and aunts “all dress up and wear sequins and leopard-print.” Her mother was a single-parent schoolteacher in Hackney. “I’d get teased and my mum used to say, ‘Not everyone will like you, and you’ve got to prepare for that’. She’s a wise woman, my mum.”


It was, she says, a politically aware household. They followed the news, got involved in campaigns and went on protest marches. This has fed into The Architect, which marks the first time Faith has been confident enough to “come out all guns blazing”.


The Architect is packed with glittering, bravura soul, pop and disco anthems, delivered with Faith’s typically exuberant swagger and style, but the themes are rooted in socio-political concerns. “The title track is a heartbreak song from Mother Nature. She’s saying, ‘I gave you everything and it wasn’t enough!’”









Paloma Faith performs on stage in 2016

Credit: Mike Lewis Photography/Redferns







Faith characterises the album as being “about empathy, putting yourself in other people’s shoes, love in an age of anxiety and loneliness.” There are songs about toxic masculinity (Crybaby), aggressive warmongering (WW3), female empowerment (Still Around) refugees (Warrior), social stereotyping (Kings and Queens), individual isolation (Lost and Lonely) and the need for more kindness in our social discourse (I’ll Be Gentle, Love Me As I Am). It also includes recorded readings from Samuel L. Jackson and Owen Jones, the Labour activist.


She knows this is not what might be expected from her. “I’m branded as quirky and I find that quite dismissive. Like, because I’ve got a sense of humour, people laugh at everything I say. And sometimes it’s not meant to be funny!” She cites her inspiration as Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, John Lennon and Marvin Gaye.


“I was raised on protest music. There’s quite enough narcissistic pop music about ‘Oh my broken heart’ and ‘Oh my poor Western existence’. It irritates me a bit. I even irritate myself when I look at my own back catalogue, I just think ‘Oh you d---! Stop moaning and bloody do something positive!’ So I have.”









“I’m branded as quirky and I find that quite dismissive"






She may be the first pop star I have ever spoken to who actually considers herself a role model. “Maybe that’s not something you choose, but I’m always aware of responsibility. I wouldn’t do something that I wouldn’t be able to explain to a child. That’s my philosophy.”


She objects to the “everyday sexism” that underpins pop music. “If you’re a woman and don’t take your clothes off in a video, people say ‘oh you’re prudish’. But just because I don’t want to have sex with the viewer on camera doesn’t mean I don’t like sex.”


With the repercussions of the Harvey Weinstein scandal still continuing to unfold, she says “I do believe [sexual harassment] goes on in the music business, too” but adds “I’ve never experienced that. I think all the men I’ve ever come across have been scared of me. For reasons of which I have no idea.” And she hoots with laughter.


The Architect will be released by RCA on Nov 17