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Weekend Reading: The White House and Socialism

If you’re looking for an interesting read over the weekend might I suggest you pay some attention to a new paper from the White House? Yes, as in the MAGA. But fear not, it is not by Trump but by… Continue reading →

Saved enough for the long term? Thought not. Read on.

I apologise for sounding like a broken record player, but we all need to be reminded that we have a slow moving car crash on our collective hands when it comes to savings, retirement and the demographic time bomb. Both… Continue reading →

Fear the LLL – Lax Leveraged Lending standards

You may just have noticed that the global debt crisis has not abated since the global financial crisis. In fact, we are still knee deep in unprecedented levels of debt. You may also have heard that the covenants surrounding many… Continue reading →

Monday Macro – Sagging earnings/surging dividends

This week we have another mixed bag of macro signals. Let’s start with some bad news – sagging earnings growth in Europe. Analysts at Morgan Stanley have just out a flash note at the beginning of the third quarter. The… Continue reading →

Cuba and Catastrophic catastrophes

It now seems that the turbulence of the last few weeks hasn’t resulted in the IPO pipeline for investment trusts closing down. The Smithson fund has broken all records and raised over £800m, surpassing Patient Capital to be the biggest… Continue reading →

New retail bond – shared ownership provider offers inflation backed return

There’s a really nice retail bond doing the rounds at the moment which I think is definitely worth a closer look. My hunch is that it might go quickly but if you can jump on board in the placing, I… Continue reading →

Macro Monday: normal service resumed

It feels like the panic selling of last week has finally stopped and we may about to resume normal service. As I’ve said consistently in this blog I can’t quite understand the cause of the recent sell-off. I can heartily… Continue reading →

The Catco Horror show

It just keeps getting worse! The shine has very definitely come off reinsurance vehicle Catco. The well-established ordinary shares were already bearing the brunt of massive losses from last year’s hurricane season. Last week brought truly terrible news for the… Continue reading →

Investors panic – what next?

Is this the really big one? Is the US bull market finally at an end? As I write these words the S&P 500 is now down 3.54% over the last month, at 2785. Crucially, for all you technically minded investors,… Continue reading →

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