2023 Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/2023/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:57:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png 2023 Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/2023/ 32 32 Good news to start 2024 https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/01/05/good-market-news-to-start-2024/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:00:55 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11008 A welcome piece of good news on the last trading day of 2023 – Lonfin, a long-term holding of ours (albeit small overall), has announced that its key connected party, Western Selection, is making a significant cash repayment to shareholders, including Lonfin. This is our 16th piece of positive corporate news in 2023 affecting closed-ended […]

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]]> Inflation drops sharply https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/01/01/inflation-drops-sharply-to-end-2023/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:10:06 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10993 I hope that you have had a good Christmas break. Ours was very busy, with lots of friends and relatives with us but a privilege to be able to host them. We shall look forward to a rest afterwards! Before anything else, here are real hopes for a lovely, happy, prosperous, peaceful and healthy 2024 […]

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]]> Encouraging end to a volatile 2023 https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/12/19/encouraging-end-to-volatile-2023/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10986 Well, a nice Christmas Present of buoyant markets and some grand increases for several of our core holdings. Indeed, even today at the time of writing, of the FTSE350, of the major movers upwards to greet the morning, we have 11 of the strongest 12 – that must be a record for us… there is […]

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]]> UK stock market is one of the best for dividends https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/04/19/uk-stock-market-best-for-dividends/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:07:03 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10526 Despite the cost of living crisis, high interest rates and ongoing uncertainty, 2023 looks set to be the ‘year of the dividends’ for investors and in that regard the UK remains one of the best-valued markets around. A recent study of markets by Evelyn Partners said the firm was expecting investors to seek securities yielding […]

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]]> New Year rally https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/01/19/new-year-rally-despite-forecast/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:36:25 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10407 Well, welcome to the highest ever levels for the FTSE100, what a pleasant ‘Father Christmas’ (well New Year) rally. The thing is, our market isn’t dear so the levels are nothing about which to be worried either. The same week also saw not the Bank of England Governor’s wish (he said wrongly in public we […]

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]]> We’ve done better than most for our clients https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/01/10/weve-done-better-than-most-for-our-clients/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:47:14 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10402 Good day! Isn’t it nice to see the days draw-out already! Despite rain and the storms, spring and summer are coming! In the 3 Jan Financial Times the headline read ‘Wealth Industry battles one of the worst years for a century’. How did we fare?   It noted a ‘double-digit drop in stocks and bonds’ […]

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]]> New Year reflections: Looking ahead and a tip https://www.miltonpj.net/2022/12/31/new-year-reflections-looking-ahead-and-a-tip-2/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 13:23:39 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10390 Well, a Happy New Year to you and let us trust a more prosperous one too! I hope that you have had a good and comfortable Christmas time. It wasn’t so cold though the rain seems to have arrived with a vengeance now. We’ve been very fortunate compared to those in North America. It seems […]

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]]> Happy Christmas and on to the next chapter https://www.miltonpj.net/2022/12/16/happy-christmas-and-the-next-chapter/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:57:11 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10375 Well, I think that all which remains is to wish all our supportive readers a very Happy Christmas and dare I suggest a prosperous 2023. It’s certainly not been an easy 2022 and the Ukraine War is still over-shadowing so much and causing such grief but we must pity the poor Ukrainians and indeed the […]

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