Spring Issue Twenty Two

Freddy Colquhoun discusses life as a wealth manager.

With Brexit looming and the possibility of a change of UK Government on the horizon, some have begun to consider planning that will further protect their wealth. There are those considering leaving…

He often comes across dust covered files that have been sent to him containing old legacy insurance policies many of which are either forgotten by clients or simply ignored on the basis that they…

Launched on 19 March 1868, the original managers set out to offer small investors the chance to share in the opportunities to put their capital to work across the world. Today, 150 years later, the…

While shares calmed swiftly, it unnerved many investors who were concerned at the trigger for this sudden correction. Behind the slump in sentiment was some payroll data from the US that suggested…

The publisher of Talking Food Magazine refuses to countenance any word other than ‘pudding’. He has a point: it’s a good strong down-to-earth word with nothing but positive associations. However, it…

The only caveat to that would be Europe’s possible need to punish the UK “pour encourager les autres” from wanting to leave. The worry of the Italians leaving the euro has receded as both Germany and…

The simplest definition of beta is that it is a measure of risk. Whilst I won’t derive the mathematics from first principles, it is worth saying that it is calculated by taking the correlation of an…

Well, time has moved on and, whilst I have not joined the Labour Party, I am certainly keen to understand its policies and where they are heading. In particular whether the Labour Party is painfully…