I am going to start with two positive points. The first is that it seems spring has arrived.

I was reminded of the Restaurant Critic’s comments in “Ratatouille” (my favourite film). What he said was ‘what we need is a little perspective’. That is what we need now.

I have been saying for some time that the US market (and its tech leaders) especially has been rising at far too rapid a rat

Recently we had a new client come to us. He had been using a large ‘platform’ provider for his pension.

I promise I did not have any special insight into events as I noted that the US looked a tad toppy.

According to some calculations, last year the US Market enjoyed the biggest splurge of liquidity for fifty years. It is sloshing around the rest of the Globe with global indices registering their sixth best year on record

US companies bought-in and cancelled $736billion of shares, reducing supply and squeezing prices ever higher and some may say cynically the Executive bonuses which so often are awarded in stock options

We don’t often do this in these missives but perhaps we are being dilatory as we have a wide and varied readership! In a nutshell, we may have an opening for a qualified adviser to join our team.

You will recall that recently we were proud to be noted as one of the Top 100 financial advisers in the Country as allocated by a prestigious trade magazine.

Well. The extent of the outcome is a surprise but very welcome – I don’t say that ‘politically’ but to be grateful to secure some much-needed certainty for us all.