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What about gold?

30.11.23 01:31 PM By Alicia - Comment(s)
What about gold?
With asset markets having been so turbulent over the past couple of years, it’s understandable that some investors may be pondering whether other options might be able to offer them higher returns and a smoother ride.

One of those options is more established than any stock or bond market, prized by m...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Autumn Statement 2023

22.11.23 02:34 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Asset Intelligence Comment: Autumn Statement 2023

By Kel Nwanuforo  
 
In existence and winning elections for almost two centuries, it is sometimes said that the Conservative and Unionist Party is one of the most successful political outfits in the history of democratic nations.

Analysts and historians often attribute this instinct for survi...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Budget 2023

16.03.23 10:26 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo   

It’s the simple questions which often land the best in politics.

In 1980, while taking part in a TV debate with his opponent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked Americans “Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Well, Jimmy Carter did not st...

Spring Budget 2023 - Overview

15.03.23 02:26 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
The key measures in Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget announced for England (national variations for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland may apply)

Wages, pensions and personal taxation
  • The Pensions Lifetime Allowance charge will be removed from April 2023, before the Allowance is abolished entirely in Apr...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Silicon Valley Bank failure

13.03.23 09:17 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Tony Mee
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was a medium-sized regional US bank that specialised in providing banking services to entrepreneurial technology businesses within the US and UK.

On Wednesday 8 March SVB notified the market that it was $2 billion short of capital. By Friday US regulators had clos...

Market Update February 2023

22.02.23 01:38 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Market Update February 2023

Information correct at time of recording. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of an investment and the income from it could go down as well as up. The return at the end of the investment period is not guaranteed and you may get back less than you originally ...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Autumn Statement 2022

21.11.22 08:35 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo

As has become even clearer since it was dissected every which way by the Sunday papers, ‘sunshine and lollipops’ this Autumn Statement was not.

Jeremy’s hunt for the UK’s credibility led to the Chancellor announcing a punishing package of spending cuts and tax rises – just as Britain ...

Asset Intelligence Comment: Liz Truss resigns – the investor’s view

20.10.22 02:12 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo

Well, there we have it folks: yet another Prime Minister bites the dust.

Liz Truss is headed for the exit door, after less than two months in office. By quite some distance, she will be the country’s shortest-serving Prime Minister, and the first since World War II never to lead her p...

Asset Intelligence Short update: Pound panic dies down

05.10.22 02:34 PM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
By Kel Nwanuforo   

Britain’s financial markets have witnessed considerable volatility since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng presented his ‘mini Budget’ last month. The pound dropped to all-time lows versus the US dollar and government borrowing costs rose sharply, with investors and traders ques...

Market Update September

30.09.22 11:08 AM By Ibbo - Comment(s)
Market Update September
Information correct at time of recording. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of an investment and the income from it could go down as well as up. The return at the end of the investment period is not guaranteed and you may get back less than you originally ...
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