On Wednesday 15 March, Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressed the Commons to deliver the Spring Budget 2023, with an aim to bring people back into the workforce. Mr Hunt commented that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects inflation to fall from 10.7% to 2.9% by the end of 2023. The Chancellor ...

The third quarter was a very volatile period for financial markets with an astonishingly wide set of declines across all the major asset classes. Indeed, after a dismal first half of the year, the vast majority of asset classes recorded a negative performance during Q3. This “everything down” market weighed on multi-asset portfolios, with limited ...

2022 has not been a good year for investors to date, but history shows us that the difficult times don’t last forever. We are hopeful that the tide will turn soon, and we aim to use that to our advantage. In the meantime, we aim to position portfolios to ride through the remaining period of ...

This has been a brutal quarter in many ways. The attack on Ukraine is an appalling human tragedy and our hearts go out to all those impacted. Investment losses are secondary and pale in comparison. Nevertheless, it falls to us to examine what has happened over the quarter in investment terms and leave the geopolitics ...