The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered the Spring 2022 Forecast Statement to Parliament on Wednesday 23 March 2022. This announcement follows the unprovoked, premeditated attack Vladimir Putin launched on Ukraine. MrSunak said, ‘The invasion has created significant uncertainty in the global economy, particularly in energy markets. The sanctions and strong response by the ...

We look back on an interesting and volatile quarter, which seemed to be representative of the COVID era in microcosm. Looking forward, we consider what threats we see to our client portfolios in 2022.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered his Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021(SR21) to Parliament on Wednesday 27 October 2021. This Budget follows another year of extraordinary economic challenges as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In our comprehensive guide, we look at what the key announcements could mean to you, your ...

After a quarter where the markets gave us more bark than bite, with equity indices overall pretty flat, we move into an interesting period for global financial markets. Governments and central banks need to come to terms with evidence that shows that inflation can no longer be dismissed as transitory and their expectations of the ...

This quarter’s commentary looks at what happened in an interesting quarter which while positive also has some interesting undercurrents as market participants started to wonder about inflation, the Delta Variant and Central Bank policy.  We also look forward using the late Donald Rumsfeld as the theme – looking at knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. ...