Month: October 2021

Market Update: Confused or determined central bankers?

Capital markets continued over the week to recover just as gradually from the September/early October downdraft as they declined then. Many commentators put it down to the continued strong Q3 corporate earnings announcements, which with 20%-40% year on year growth between Europe and the US has indeed provided a positive for stretched equity valuations.

/ 25th October 2021

What’s happening with inflation?

Understanding inflation is an important factor when it comes to your financial success. If you don’t factor inflation in when deciding where to put your money – whether that’s savings accounts or investing – you could find your wealth shrinks over the years.

/ 22nd October 2021

Market Update: The state of the global economy

By most measures, economic growth has been disappointing over the last few months. Economists started the year with high expectations for the post-pandemic recovery to become a sustained expansion – optimistic that vaccines and rebounding confidence would spur activity.

/ 15th October 2021

Investing for Children and Grandchildren

With many of us living longer, you may be thinking about how you can support your family at the moments that matter. Sharing your wealth during your lifetime – especially with younger generations facing the pressures of rising house prices and university fees – can really make a difference and bring you great joy too.

/ 15th October 2021

How to Trace Multiple Old Pension Pots

Changed job? Moved house? It’s not always easy to keep track of a pension, especially if you’ve been in more than one scheme or have changed employers throughout your career. Over time, pension schemes close, merge or become renamed. So even if you remember the name of your scheme, it could now be called something else.

/ 12th October 2021

Market Update: Economy Hits an Air Pocket

October has carried on where September left off, with quite a bit of daily up and down for markets, but with a slight downwards trend. For UK readers, the lack of positive vibe in stock markets is probably unsurprising, with petrol this week only slowly returning to being a commodity – rather than a scarcity...

/ 8th October 2021

Autumn Team News

Hello autumn! What a beautiful start to September we had and alas, the rain and wind starts to become more frequent and soon enough, we’ll all be scraping the frost off our cars in the mornings (as long as we have some fuel that is!)

/ 5th October 2021