A Value View - The Merchants Trust PLC Podcast

A Value View - The Merchants Trust PLC Podcast

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Episodes 37
Avg. Duration 12m
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Since Mar 2018
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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About This Podcast

A Value View is a series of topical podcasts from The Merchants Trust, ​focusing on developments affecting the UK market environment and how the trust navigates them. So what does this mean for investors? – join portfolio manager Simon Gergel as he offers his thoughts

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Recent Episodes

S1E37 A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity in UK Mid-Caps?

Dec 19, 2025 13m

As the year draws to a close, the UK stock market presents a polarised picture, with a narrow band of large-cap stocks leading the way. But is the real story in the overlooked and undervalued mid-cap…

S1E36 Valuation Over Sentiment: Merchants Trust’s Investment Discipline in Action

Aug 20, 2025 17m

In this episode, Simon Gergel, Portfolio Manager at The Merchants Trust, discusses the trust’s unusually active first half of the year, with eight new stocks added to the portfolio. He explains the…

S1E35 Global shocks, local gains: Investing in a tariff-tangled world

Jun 10, 2025 16m

In this episode of A Value View from the Merchants Trust, host Jon Cronin sits down with Portfolio Manager Simon Gergel to unpack the seismic shifts in the global economy triggered by President…

S1E34 Would you like small, medium, or large?

Mar 12, 2025 13m

The old saying goes that ‘small is beautiful’. An increasing number of smaller and mid-sized UK firms are standing out and capturing interest. Simon and Jon discuss what’s driving the growth…

S1E33 Exciting times for UK Equities?

Feb 07, 2025 10m

In contrast to many countries, the UK has entered a period of relative political stability. Simon Gergel describes how this is combining with other factors to signal a note of optimism for investors…

S1E32 From Interest Rates to Breakfast Plates

Oct 16, 2024 12m

What’s in store for UK interest rates and investors as we approach year-end? In this 32nd episode of a Value View podcast, portfolio manager Simon Gergel shares his outlook and discusses the factors…

S1E31 With elections behind us, who holds the power?

Aug 06, 2024 16m

Who holds the power: the government or the market? In this episode, Simon Gergel discusses the aftermath of the recent UK elections, marked by a significant Labour victory. He explores the market…

S1E30 Happy 30th

Jun 24, 2024 17m

In this 30th episode of the A Value View podcast, Jon and Simon discuss dividends once again. With Merchants having reached its 42nd consecutive year of paying an increased dividend, just how has the…

S1E29 A great opportunity set for investors

Apr 11, 2024 16m

In this episode, Merchant’s portfolio manager, Simon Gergel is challenged around his ‘glass half full’ view of the UK market. Simon takes the challenge in hand explaining the factors behind his…

S1E28 Glass half full?

Dec 07, 2023 11m

There have been many reasons over recent years for investors to be ‘out of love’ with the UK; Brexit, political uncertainty, pandemic, Ukraine, Trussonomics and the perception of worse inflation…

S1E27 Talking income

Sep 22, 2023 12m

As the trust gears up for the release of its latest interim results, many investors will have an eye on the upcoming dividend. As an AIC Dividend Hero, the trust is well known for maintaining a…

S1E26 Building the case for building

May 26, 2023 10m

The housing market has long been seen as a key bellwether of the overall state of UK market. But the recent squeeze on the cost of living – namely, rising prices which have in turn driven interest…

S1E25 A Closer Look at the UK’s Stock Market

Mar 30, 2023 13m

In the latest episode of ‘A Value View’, host Jon Cronin gets Simon Gergel’s thoughts on the current outlook for the UK’s FTSE 100. On the one-hand, the FTSE hit an all-time high in February, on the…

S1E24 Passed Peak Fear for Investors?

Feb 16, 2023 14m

Are we in an environment where investors can now see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel? Some inflation pressures are abating and although rates are still going up, the fear that rates are…

S1E23 Challenging times

Nov 02, 2022 11m

There are a number of serious challenges facing the UK economy – rising energy costs, the cost of living crisis, rising interest rates and mortgage costs and supply chain issues to name a few.…

S1E22 Reigning Supreme

Jun 20, 2022 7m

On the occasion of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Simon and Jon reflect not only on that incredible achievement, but also on the highs and lows faced by The Merchants Trust over its 133 year history.…

S1E21 Powering Towards the Future

May 03, 2022 11m

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent concerns over fossil fuel supplies from Russia have combined in a perfect storm with already rising energy prices and wider cost of living inflation to…

S1E20 A UK Renaissance?

Mar 22, 2022 9m

The UK market has been more resilient than global peers so far in 2022 and whilst highly valued growth stocks across the globe feel the impact of rising inflation and interest rates, many value…

S1E19 Separating The Wheat From The Chaff

Jan 14, 2022 11m

As 2021 fades in the memory, the spectre of inflation is firmly on investors’ minds and Simon Gergel gives his view on what that may mean for markets in 2022. After a year where finding genuinely…

S1E18 Out of Time For Just-In-Time?

Nov 02, 2021 12m

Supply issues have been in the spotlight of late. Where companies had got used to ‘just-in-time’ supply chains, they have now seen just how easily these can be disrupted. Whilst such factors mean…

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