The fixed interest bond markets are usually seen as ‘safe’ investments, but 2021 has become a problem year for bonds with expectations over rising inflation hitting real yields and values. In the past three months UK gilt funds have fallen…
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Investors looking at their one-year portfolio returns may well be astonished to find double-digit return figures, ranging from around 15% for lower risk strategies to close to 50% for pure global equity portfolios. Global stock markets have returned impressive figures…
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Global stock markets have suffered a significant correction over the past three weeks, a correction that has particularly hit US tech stocks. Ironically, the reasons why we have seen such a concentrated fall in value is a result of the…
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It is less than a year since Rishi Sunak presented his first Budget, after having been in the role of Chancellor for less than a month. His despatch box première featured an allocation of £12bn towards mitigating the impact of…
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Global stock markets have fallen around 4% over the past 10 days with Friday seeing heavy one day falls. These asset value reductions were the result of recent rises in US treasury yields due to the expectation of rising inflation…
Read more... The value of sterling has been improving and hit US$1.37 on the back of the Brexit deal and the relatively swift roll out of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines across the country. The fact that the pound has gained 19%…
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The Brexit agreement made late on Christmas Eve was welcomed by financial markets and by British business with sterling and UK equity markets strengthening in response. The Brexit deal agreed covered the trade of goods but not the trade of…
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The general economic outlook is aided by the pressure upon all governments to roll out their Covid vaccine programmes. While supply chains may be under pressure, a good level of vaccination is expected in developed countries to see a full…
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There are some fears that the three new variants of Covid-19 are more transmissible and more deadly. The first extensive study of the UK discovered variant shows it to be 30% more lethal and 70% more infectious. The London School…
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