Our blog may help you with any financial issues you may have.
Edition 30 portfolios will not initially hold UK or European equity funds.
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- January 2, 2019
The risk of the UK leaving the EU on the 29th March without a pre-agreed exit deal has significantly increased. For several weeks we had expected an agreed withdrawal agreement…
Read More
Collectively our portfolios outperformed their respective benchmarks on 50 out of 52 occasions.
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 19, 2018
We have been saying for the past six months that the blending and selection of investments for our Investment Portfolios has been challenging with so many global factors conspiring to…
Read More
The world has re-mortgaged
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 19, 2018
In the ten years since the financial crisis, the combination of central bank’s increasing their bond buying program’s and an increase in household, corporate and government borrowing has taken world…
Read More
A changing world
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 18, 2018
The world has come a long way since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Regulators have overhauled the rules of banking and brokering in an attempt to correct…
Read More
Global growth downgraded
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 17, 2018
Fund managers have continued to downgrade forecasts for global growth. The end of Q3 consensus forecasts for 2018 has been reduced to 3.2% from 3.4% in Q2 and for 2019…
Read More
Who holds the Trump card?
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 16, 2018
The exponential growth in China’s economy over the past forty years has brought hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens out of poverty and advanced the Chinese people’s standard of living…
Read More
The biggest risk to the US economy?
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 16, 2018
In early October, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expressed his delight that the US economy was going very well by saying, ‘We are enjoying a remarkable set of economic…
Read More
Too big to fail and too big to bail?
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 15, 2018
In terms of the scale of public debt, Italy has been the elephant in Europe’s room for a long time. The Italian national debt is now €2.5tn which is 132%…
Read More
Oil Wars
- Posted by Estate Capital
- |
- December 15, 2018
The US administration’s sanctions against Iranian oil exports came into force on the 4th November. This includes sanctions on corporations buying Iranian oil or trading with their central bank. Without…
Read More