Andrew’s Views Last week was Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. This important holiday tends to bring a gentle slowdown in activity. American markets were closed on Thursday 28th November and had a shorter trading day on Friday, allowing many investors to take a long weekend. The week was relatively quiet for markets due to the [...]
I get asked this question a lot. In fact, its possibly the most asked question from new clients that I get. The answer, as always, is: it depends. In most people’s circumstances it makes a lot more sense to hold on to your tax free cash and not take it yet. If you think about [...]
I have been asked this question a lot over the past couple of months. It doesn’t help that the Chancellor and the Prime Minister are constantly going on about how tough the budget is going to have to be. I must have read 100 reports that state the author knows what will be announced, only [...]
US Global equities reached a new high last Monday, before cooling a little throughout the week. This is an appropriate time for the post-election euphoria to cool and for some details of the new regime to emerge, despite President-elect Donald Trump not taking office until 20 January. Last week saw confirmation that both houses of [...]
Andrew’s Views ‘But’ Economies throughout the world are doing well at the moment. News last week regarding US jobs data was significantly better than expected meaning that the chance of a recession is becoming less and less likely. China’s fiscal stimulus is having the desired effect with Chinese equities rising 20% at one point. Economists [...]
Our standard advice is that everybody should have a Will. However, some people need one more than others. If you die without a Will, and you’re married or in a civil partnership with children then everything held in joint names will go to your spouse/partner when you die. For anything held in your sole name, [...]
Andrew’s Views (Market Update) It’s all about Nvidia Last week was supposed to be all about Nvidia’s earnings results, which took place just after the U.S. market closed on Wednesday. Many analysts described the release as one of the most important corporate results in history, even perceived by some as more influential than last week’s [...]
I thought that I would just write down my thoughts after taking the leap from paraplanning to advising, as a sort of ‘what to expect’ for any paraplanners who are currently in the position that I was and are thinking about moving across into advising. This will likely not be everyone’s experience, and I would [...]
Andrew’s Views Things had been going very well during July, and I had written a very different market update, and then on the very last day of the month we saw some huge falls across the world. Whilst most of the volatility has calmed and the losses mostly clawed back, Japan saw the largest falls. [...]
Andrew’s Views Markets continued with modest gains in June, with most of the news being about politics rather than economic or corporate news. This is an election heavy year with both the UK and France’s elections having taken place and the US election coming in November. There were some concerns that the far-right in France [...]
