The introduction of our Positive Impact Portfolios in April 2019 was driven by the recognition that clients were increasingly wanting their portfolios to be invested in a manner that caused less environmental harm...
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The great bull market in equities and bonds began in 1981 as Charles married Di, Mrs Thatcher was in No.10, Ronald Reagan in the White House...
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Not many would have picked the euro as being the strongest major currency last year...
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The chart shows that apart from a sharp short-term fall of at the height of the markets panic in March Government Bonds....
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Ever since March, stock markets have existed in a sort of ‘neverworld’, propped up by huge Central Bank and Government...
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My gosh, we are in the middle of the most dreadful time most of us have encountered but no-one bothered to tell the financial markets...
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Infection rates are soaring and tightening lockdown restrictions mean a horribly challenging next few months...
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Equity markets rallied strongly in the last two months of the year fuelled initially by the US election result and then by the announcement that mass global immunisation against the coronavirus would begin in the first half of 2021...
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We tend to concentrate in this newsletter on just the financial metrics, bond yields, equity returns and all that jazz. I like to throw in a bit about music and films and the footy every so often to give us all a bit of a break from the heavy stuff...
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The much-derided euro is now the currency of choice following the announcement of an EU fiscal package which for the first time involves debt mutualisation and the promise of a unified rather than single country fiscal policy in the future...
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