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Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2018
The Markets
In contrast to the market calm and momentum-driven gains in 2017, the first half of this year has seen a return to more ‘normal’ levels of volatility with markets actually responding to potentially disruptive news flow rather than treating such factors with indifference.
There has, as always, been an abundance of geopolitical issues to attract attention – the bombing of ...read more
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Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2018
Wow! What a start to 2018! In our January Newsletter, we commented on the general tone of complacency that had accompanied ‘bad news days’ which seemed to indicate that the pressure on investors to find an income stream in the face of persistently low interest rates outweighed considerations of potential negatives. Everyone was hoping that the global ‘Goldilocks’ economy – not too hot, not too col...read more
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Quarterly Newsletter - Winter 2018
The Markets. If you look back at 2017 and recall what we have been dealing with – concerns over the Brexit negotiations, the continuing crisis in the Middle East, US interest rate hikes, President Trump’s crazy tweeting and his protectionist tendencies, a sabre-rattling North Korean dictator and largely indecisive election results in the UK and elsewhere – you would be forgiven for thinking that m...read more
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Quarterly Newsletter - Autumn 2017
You may have read press reports relating to something called MiFID II. MiFID is another EU acronym and stands for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Financial instruments, in this case, are shares, bonds, units in collective investment schemes and derivatives, and MiFID is the EU legislation for both financial intermediaries as well as the venues (some 300 of them across Europe) where the...read more
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