Anniversary time and awkward markets
Investment returns and falls
North Devon Business Awards
We were delighted to be the main sponsor again for Business Action’s North Devon Business Awards. Well done to Rob Zarywacz and team for a great event and all that volunteer help in assimilating all the applicants and judging them too.
Every applicant was a worthy contender but well done to those...
Government turnaround and market opportunities
Well, economics and turnarounds where the Government would be lambasted whatever it did. However, the reversal of the 5% tax cut is purely political as the suggested £0.6-£2billion it raises is a tiny sum of the total tax take HMRC collected last year of £716billion.As an economist and not a politician speaking, I still...
How will the Mini Budget affect your finances?
Markets? We are holding our own reasonably though Mini Budget week was savage and the negativity is continuing. Our hedging Dollar assets rose in Sterling terms and so many ‘value’ equities now are exceedingly attractive, with high dividend incomes.Do we trim some of our Defensive Dollar-based assets now? Growth areas were hit hardest –...
Is crypto about to crash and burn?
Is it Armageddon for the cryptocurrency market? Recent headlines have shouted that more than $2trillion (yes, trillion!) has been wiped off the value of the overall crypto market following a crash since its high of November last year.
Remember, these things are not regulated. That means there are no enforceable rules or protections and as...
What is it we actually do?
Some industries appear shrouded in mystery to the public at large and ‘what is it you actually do?’ is a common question we hear as a chartered wealth management company – as no doubt do many others in various professions.
We offer various services, but the biggest by some margin is looking after the wealth...
Blue Planet Investment Trust letter – don’t worry
A number of clients have received an astonishing letter from Blue Planet Investment Trust today. I wanted to assure clients that they have to do nothing as a consequence of its receipt but I shall be sending a full letter to everyone next week. There is absolutely no ‘urgency’ to do anything and all...
Tech worm takes a bite of Apple as market volatility continues
Downside volatility continues and the biggest and previously brightest names are the most afflicted. Apple has fallen and now overtaken again by Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Oil as the biggest global company (and its profits surged over 80% in the last quarter).Perhaps Apple and its owners are being reminded of Sir Isaac Newton’s gravity lessons....
Wobbling markets and avoid the inheritance trap
The markets are deciding to have yet another wobble. The tech-based Nasdaq is now down 25% from its high and all those relying upon its major components for their cheap global tracker funds are beginning to realise that that’s not such a good idea after all when ‘all’ the tech stocks unravel so significantly...
High tide for overinflated tech bubble?
I shall make a prediction now. Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter may well be looked-back-upon as the pinnacle of the excesses of the ‘tech’ bubble (and after the Nasdaq indices have suffered their worst ever month). Of course, as usual it will only be time which tells but we are still enjoying seriously cheap...