Market Updates.

A perfect storm. - 10th October 2014

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “Just when we had got use to lower volatility, risk-on/risk-off has returned to the markets with vengeance. Earlier this year […]

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Scotland: the head wins! - 19th September 2014

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “Scotland’s Independence Referendum was in the end decided by the head rather than the heart, with a decisive ‘No’ […]

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Scotland 2. - 10th September 2014

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “As the Scottish Independence Referendum draws closer, we have had a number of clients becoming increasingly concerned with the […]

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Scotland. - 8th September 2014

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “The Scottish independence referendum has been the elephant in the room this year.  Markets have been paying too little attention to the referendum, largely […]

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“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.” - 25th July 2014

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “Shortly after becoming the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve in 1987, Alan Greenspan once joked with reporters, “Since I’ve […]

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Super Mario: another version of ‘whatever it takes’? - 5th June 2014

The European Central Bank today cut the main refinancing rate from 0.25% to 0.15%.

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US weakness sends global markets lower. - 27th January 2014

Global equity markets have today extended last week falls, sending major benchmarks back to levels seen during the first half of December.

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Talking down expectations as 7% nears. - 22nd January 2014

Data released today shows that UK unemployment has declined to 7.1%.

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Goldilocks and the Three Knockouts. - 21st January 2014

The era of low interest rates is shaping up to keep going well into 2015 and potentially beyond.

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The Fed tapered and the markets liked it. - 19th December 2013

The Federal Reserve said it will reduce the pace of its monthly bond purchases to $75 billion from $85 billion.

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