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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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Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2017
At the beginning of the year it was quite easy to paint a less than rosy outlook for the global economy. At the risk of repeating the obvious, the Brexit referendum and the prospect of difficult negotiations with our European ‘friends’, the US election result, forecasts of an impending populist surge in general elections in the Netherlands, Austria and, above all, France all pointed to political u...read more
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Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2017
Wow! Just as we are worrying about President Trump abandoning his isolationist policy and getting heavy-handed abroad, and whilst we are also thinking about forthcoming elections in both France and Germany, Mrs. May surprises us all by calling a snap election here at home!Having repeatedly assured us that she would not go to the country until 2020, she clearly has performed a U-turn, announcing a ...read more
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