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20/20 hindsight – looking at three year government bond market returns
1 Months ago at 8:14 by Anthony Doyle
Investors in government bonds – historically seen as a low volatile and safe asset class – have had to get to grips with assessing credit risk as well as duration risk in their portfolios. It is ...
Inflation has been delayed
1 Months ago at 7:00 by John Redwood
When we switched more into shares towards the end of last year we expected more growth and more measures to stimulate growth. We anticipated more UK inflation. All these things duly materialised, with ...
Extending your home? What you can & can’t do
1 Months ago at 7:00 by hip-consultant.co.uk
In the majority of cases when it comes to extending your home or converting your loft, you will find you don’t need planning permission due to your development rights. However, when planning an ...
6 steps to success with solicitors and accountants (part 2)
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Steve Billingham
Last time we looked at why advisers often struggle to develop successful relationships with solicitors and accountants. Today, I want to outline the first 3 strategic steps in the relationship ...
Can social media play a part in pension scheme governance?
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Henry Tapper
One of the requirements of the NAPF’s Pension Quality Mark is that for workplace pension schemes to meet the mark they must show some level of governance. PQM requires that SMEs (and micro ...
IMF less optimistic for global growth
1 Months ago at 9:11 by Matt Williams
Having been advised by his chiropractor not to carry a wallet (?) Wayne Klinkel of Denver, Colorado, took to leaving his cash in the car. He was not worried about theft because his dog was there to ...
Old Lady sells her bonds
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Richard Woolnough
Back in 2009 the Bank of England (the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street) began buying a portfolio of investment grade bonds to provide funding to UK corporates, to aid liquidity in the corporate bond ...
Does economics need *more* physics envy?
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Diane Coyle, OBE
It’s often said by critics of economics that the problem is economists have physics envy: they want to describe the economy using models that are over-complicated in the mathematics, mimicking ...
Too much social media could be bad for relationships
1 Months ago at 7:00 by Graham Jones
Business is about relationships, we all know that. And thankfully the online world of social media helps you build, extend and maintain relationships in more ways than you imagined possible just a few ...
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Born 1961 In Cheshire, aged 49, no kids married to another solicitor – I tell my clients that ...
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