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MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Shares in our tip BP Marsh have almost doubled in just over a year By JOANNE HART Updated: 16:50 EST, 23 November 2024 e-mail View comments Dedicated: BP Marsh founder Brian Marsh is helping firms grow As an 83-year-old board director, Ken Davy is unusual but he is certainly not the only octogenarian on the stock market. BP Marsh chairman Brian Marsh is also 83, as sharp as a tack, and still arrives for work between 7am and 7.15am four days a week. His dedication pays dividends, not just for him, as a 38 per cent shareholder, but to every investor in the business. BP Marsh invests in up-and-coming insurance firms, acquiring small stakes for up to £5 million apiece, helping these companies to grow and reaping the benefits when they are sold to larger players. Marsh has spent almost 60 years in the insurance industry and his father was in the market before him, working on the old Lloyd's of London floor in the City. Networks are important in this industry and, with a new generation of experienced staffers, BP Marsh is well known for helping young businesses to prosper and grow. Recent transactions prove the point. In 2019, BP Marsh bought a 30 per cent stake in new broking firm Lilley Plummer Risks for £1 million, £700,000 was repaid in 2023, and late last month, Marsh sold its holding for £21.65 million. Earlier this year, the group completed another sale, this time for £44 million after an initial investment of just over £4 million seven years ago. Today, BP Marsh has around £100 million on its balance sheet and has just told investors that it will be increasing annual dividend payments from £4 million to £5 million in 2026 and 2027, equivalent to 13.4p a share a year. The group has also pledged to give shareholders another £5 million on top of any dividends paid out in 2028. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next MIDAS SHARE TIPS: BP Marsh invests in up-and-coming... It's time to bag an investment trust bargain - our experts... Share this article Share HOW THIS IS MONEY CAN HELP How to choose the best (and cheapest) stocks and shares Isa and the right DIY investing account Business is brisk. BP Marsh does not have to look for deals. Entrepreneurs come to the firm, knowing its reputation as a supportive backer of small businesses. There have been five transactions this year alone, including two last month – new Lloyd's of London broker SRT, and Volt, which specialises in energy insurance for both renewable and fossil-fuel plants. Marsh does not take on insurance risk himself. Instead, his firm focuses on middle-men, such as brokers and underwriting agencies. That means the company is less vulnerable to losses from events such as Hurricane Helene and Milton, which devastated parts of the United States earlier this year. Marsh's portfolio could even benefit from these catastrophes, if they provoke an increase in commercial insurance prices. Midas verdict: Midas recommended BP Marsh in June 2023, when the shares were £3.76. They have almost doubled since then to £7. Investors may choose to take some profits now but it would be unwise to sell out completely. Generous dividends are in store and Marsh shows no sign of slowing down. A strong hold. Traded on: Aim Ticker: BPM Contact: bpmarsh.co.uk DIY INVESTING PLATFORMS AJ Bell AJ Bell Easy investing and ready-made portfolios Learn More Learn More Hargreaves Lansdown Hargreaves Lansdown Free fund dealing and investment ideas Learn More Learn More interactive investor interactive investor Flat-fee investing from £4.99 per month Learn More Learn More Saxo Saxo Get £200 back in trading fees Learn More Learn More Trading 212 Trading 212 Free dealing and no account fee Learn More Learn More Affiliate links: If you take out a product This is Money may earn a commission. These deals are chosen by our editorial team, as we think they are worth highlighting. This does not affect our editorial independence. Compare the best investing account for you Share or comment on this article: MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Shares in our tip BP Marsh have almost doubled in just over a year e-mail Add comment Some links in this article may be affiliate links. If you click on them we may earn a small commission. That helps us fund This Is Money, and keep it free to use. We do not write articles to promote products. We do not allow any commercial relationship to affect our editorial independence. More top stories

BERLIN (AP) — Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk caused uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest. Germany is to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party governing coalition collapsed last month in a dispute over how to revitalize the country’s stagnant economy. Musk's guest opinion piece for Welt am Sonntag —a sister publication of POLITICO owned by the Axel Springer Group — published in German over the weekend, was the second time this month he supported the Alternative for Germany, or AfD. “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the last spark of hope for this country," Musk wrote in his translated commentary. He went on to say the far-right party “can lead the country into a future where economic prosperity, cultural integrity and technological innovation are not just wishes, but reality.” The Tesla Motors CEO also wrote that his investment in Germany gave him the right to comment on the country's condition. The AfD is polling strongly, but its candidate for the top job, Alice Weidel , has no realistic chance of becoming chancellor because other parties refuse to work with the far-right party. An ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the technology billionaire challenged in his opinion piece the party's public image. “The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!” Musk’s commentary has led to a debate in German media over the boundaries of free speech, with the paper's own opinion editor announcing her resignation, pointedly on Musk's social media platform, X. “I always enjoyed leading the opinion section of WELT and WAMS. Today an article by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. I handed in my resignation yesterday after it went to print," Eva Marie Kogel wrote. A critical article by the future editor-in-chief of the Welt group, Jan Philipp Burgard, accompanied Musk’s opinion piece. “Musk’s diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally wrong,” Burgard wrote. Responding to a request for comment from the German Press Agency, dpa, the current editor-in-chief of the Welt group, Ulf Poschardt, and Burgard — who is due to take over on Jan. 1 — said in a joint statement that the discussion over Musk's piece was "very insightful. Democracy and journalism thrive on freedom of expression.” “This will continue to determine the compass of the “world” in the future. We will develop “Die Welt” even more decisively as a forum for such debates,” they wrote to dpa.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, has died at 100Jimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency of anyone to hold the office, and one of the most active. Here is a look back at his life. 1924 — Jimmy Carter was born on Oct. 1 to Earl and Lillian Carter in the small town of Plains, Georgia. 1928 — Earl Carter bought a 350-acre farm 3 miles from Plains in the tiny community of Archery. The Carter family lived in a house on the farm without running water or electricity. 1941 — He graduated from Plains High School and enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College in Americus. 1942 — He transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. 1943 — Carter’s boyhood dream of being in the Navy becomes a reality as he is appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. 1946 — He received his naval commission and on July 7 married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. They moved to Norfolk, Virginia. 1946-1952 — Carter’s three sons are born, Jack in 1947, Chip in 1950 and Jeff in 1952. 1962-66 — Carter is elected to the Georgia State Senate and serves two terms. 1953 — Carter’s father died and he cut his naval career short to save the family farm. Due to a limited income, Jimmy, Rosalynn and their three sons moved into Public Housing Apartment 9A in Plains. 1966 — He ran for governor, but lost. 1967 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s fourth child, Amy, is born. 1971 — He ran for governor again and won the election, becoming Georgia’s 76th governor on Jan. 12. 1974 — Carter announced his candidacy for president. 1976 — Carter was elected 39th president on Nov. 2, narrowly defeating incumbent Gerald Ford. 1978 — U.S. and the Peoples’ Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. President Carter negotiates and mediates an accord between Egypt and Israel at Camp David. 1979 — The Department of Education is formed. Iranian radicals overrun the U.S. Embassy and seize American hostages. The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty is signed. 1980 — On March 21, Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled in Moscow. A rescue attempt to get American hostages out of Iran is unsuccessful. Carter was defeated in his bid for a second term as president by Ronald Reagan in November. 1981 — President Carter continues to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Iran. Minutes before his term as president is over, the hostages are released. 1982 — Carter became a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta, and founded The Carter Center. The nonpartisan and nonprofit center addresses national and international issues of public policy. 1984 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteer one week a year for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes, until 2020. He also taught Sunday school in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains from the mid-’80s until 2020. 2002 — Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2015 — Carter announced in August he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain. 2016 — He said in March that he no longer needed cancer treatment. 2024 — Carter dies at 100 years old. Sources: Cartercenter.org, Plains Historical Preservation Trust, The Associated Press; The Brookings Institution; U.S. Navy; WhiteHouse.gov, Gallup

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President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he wants to change the name of the highest mountain in North America from Denali back to Mount McKinley. Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, immediately pushed back, saying they support the Koyukon Athabascan place name for the mountain. Denali was long favored by many Alaskans and used by Indigenous people here for centuries. Trump made the suggestion Sunday in a speech to supporters in Phoenix at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. He mentioned former President William McKinley of Ohio as a supporter of protective tariffs, which Trump has embraced. “William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States ... the vast sums of money that he brought into our country,” Trump told the crowd. “The person really who got us the money that President Theodore Roosevelt used to build the Panama Canal and a lot of other things. McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president. They took his name off Mount McKinley, right? That’s what they do to people. ... But President McKinley was the president that was responsible for creating a vast sum of money in the United States that Teddy Roosevelt then spent. So let’s say that they were both excellent presidents, but McKinley did that, and that’s one of the reasons that we’re going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it. I think he deserves it. There are lots of things we can name, but I think he deserves it. That was not very gracious to somebody that did a good job.” Trump offered no more specifics. The mountain, the highest in North America at 20,310 feet, was named Mount McKinley by the federal government in 1896 but was renamed Denali in 2015 by the Interior Department on the eve of then-President Barack Obama’s visit to Alaska. It followed many years of efforts by Alaska officials and Native groups to rename the mountain. It was renamed by then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell under a federal law that allows the secretary to make changes to geographic names through the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, according to the department. The park was originally named Mount McKinley National Park in 1917. Its name was changed in 1980 with the creation of Denali National Park and Preserve. McKinley died without ever setting foot in Alaska, assassinated in 1901 at the start of his second term in office. Jewell’s 2015 order changing the name of the mountain notes, “President McKinley never visited, nor did he have any significant historical connection to, the mountain or to Alaska.” The name “Denali” is derived from the Koyukon name and is based on a verb theme meaning “high” or “tall,” according to linguist James Kari of the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in the book “Shem Pete’s Alaska.” Both Alaska senators immediately pushed back on Trump’s remarks Sunday. “Sen. Sullivan like many Alaskans prefers the name that the very tough, very strong, very patriotic Athabaskan people gave the mountain thousands of years ago — Denali,” Sullivan aide Amada Coyne wrote in a text message. Sullivan has been a supporter of the president-elect. Murkowski, on social media, said, “There is only one name worthy of North America’s tallest mountain: Denali — the Great One.” Trump suggested changing the name back when he was president in 2017 and both Murkowski and Sullivan objected, Sullivan said in remarks to the Alaska Federation of Natives annual conference, according to an ADN article at the time. The senators met at the White House with Trump and then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to discuss Alaska issues, Sullivan said, including reversing Obama executive actions the senators had opposed. At the end of the meeting, Sullivan said, “He looked at me and said, ‘I heard that the big mountain in Alaska also had — also its name was changed by executive action. Do you want us to reverse that?'” He and Murkowski “jumped over the desk — we said, ‘no! No. Don’t want to reverse that,’ ” Sullivan said. Sullivan said he told the president Denali was the name given to the mountain by the Athabascan people more than 10,000 years ago. And Sullivan’s wife is Athabascan. If “you change that name back now, she’s going to be really, really mad,” he said he told the president. “So he’s like, ‘all right, we won’t do that,’ ” Sullivan said. U.S. Rep.-elect Nick Begich couldn’t immediately be reached on Sunday, and a spokesman for Gov. Mike Dunleavy had no immediate comment.Georgia Southern 26, Coastal Carolina 6The Minnesota Timberwolves could probably benefit from a holiday break to address the many issues that have led to the team's disappointing 14-14 start. Instead, the Wolves are set to play in front of a national TV audience when they visit the surging Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. Minnesota dropped its third straight game on Monday in a 117-104 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. The Wolves will look to regroup against the Mavericks, who beat the Portland Trail Blazers 132-108 on Monday for their 14th win in their last 17 games. Minnesota has failed to score 110 points in regulation in 14 straight games and struggled from the start in Monday's loss to Atlanta. The Wolves fell behind 27-9 to begin the game and never recovered. "We couldn't finish around the rim again, turned it over at a high level to start the game, got down," Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. "We start the fourth, and it just became a shot-making contest. We missed about five wide-open shots, and they made theirs at the other end of the floor, and then turnovers hurt us late." Naz Reid scored 23 points off the bench and Julius Randle added 19 to go along with 13 rebounds in the loss to the Hawks. Even with proven scorers such as Anthony Edwards and Randle, the Wolves are 23rd in the NBA with 109.3 points per game. Following Monday's loss, Randle was asked how the Wolves could improve on the offensive end. "To be honest, man, I don't know," Randle said. "That's about as honest as an answer I can give you. I can tell you what's working sometimes. Like when we're playing with pace, moving, all that stuff. We've just got to do it more consistent than that, but I don't know, man." Minnesota is looking to avenge a 120-114 home loss in its first meeting this season against Dallas on Oct. 29. Edwards scored 37 points for the Wolves, while Kyrie Irving led the Mavericks with 35. While Minnesota is playing below expectations, Dallas is in fourth place in the Western Conference race and owns a 10-4 mark at home this season. "We're in a good seat, but still a long way to go," Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said. "A lot of basketball to be played for us to get better. We believe we've done pretty well of late. But we can't relax. The West is too tough. We're not satisfied yet." Dallas star Luka Doncic returned after missing two games with a left heel contusion and scored 27 points in Monday's win over Portland. Doncic is averaging 24.8 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists in 16 career games against Minnesota. The Mavericks also received a spark against Portland from center Daniel Gafford, who finished with 23 points off the bench on 7-of-7 shooting from the field and 9-of-14 from the foul line. "I feel like I'm on top of the world," Gafford said. "I'm like a kid in a candy score, especially when I get an opportunity to score and get an and-one. It gives me a chance to yell and get the blood flowing, too." Dallas guard Klay Thompson enters Wednesday's contest just two 3-pointers away from passing Reggie Miller (2,560) for fifth on the NBA's all-time career 3-pointers list. --Field Level Media