It’s a new year and a renewed focus on saving a bit of money – Xmas has got to be paid for somehow! My favorite exercise is to look down the dauntingly long list of monthly direct debits and pick… Continue reading →
Anyone looking for a good reason not to dust off their investment crystal balls should look no further than the strange world of volatility. I’d be a very rich man if I’d have collected a measly £1 from each ‘investment… Continue reading →
We’ve come to the end of the year and the newspapers are full of the usual end of year predictions – I’ll shortly be filling my own quota in the usual outlets. Most of these editorial spacefillers can safely be… Continue reading →
I have one very obvious prediction about 2018 – Smart Beta will become increasingly important to not only institutional but also retail investors. Overall I think smart beta is a force for good but as with all heavily marketed products,… Continue reading →
I always slightly dread the beginning of January, for it is the time of the ‘lame prediction’ by investment journalists. We’re all collectively dragooned into providing increasingly banal tips about what might happen in the coming 12 months. Obviously, when… Continue reading →
Anyone with university age kids will know that student digs have changed over the last few decades. I was lucky to go to a university/college that had excellent on-campus facilities but many a year was also spent in dreadful hovels… Continue reading →
Emerging market equities have had a strong 2017 so far, up 10% points more than developed markets this year by comparison – helped along by the obvious turnaround in sentiment towards China. But in the last few weeks we’ve also… Continue reading →
When it comes to pensions I think we can all agree on a number of overall observations: in no particular order, I’d suggest the following – DB schemes are dead in the water and not long for this world –… Continue reading →
The numbers for 2017 are nearly in and volatility looks like it cruising to multi-decade lows. Unless there’s a huge equity market upset in the dying trading days of mid-late December, new data from Hamish Preston, senior associate, at S&P… Continue reading →
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