Reading Time: 6 minutesSo look I get that no-one needs another piece debating the 4% rule. (I did write a piece doing exactly this last summer though, showing that the last decade of low rates had “broken” the 4% rule – in the UK, similar conclusions would hold in the US). The follow-up to that piece was surprising- … More How Much Would You Need to Retire In Your 40’s?
Reading Time: 3 minutesAll the ingredients came together here to deliver a really tasty story: You’ve got a rare listing of a tech “darling” in London, in a climate where the UK government is desperate to “reawaken” London’s capital markets in a post-Brexit world and in a time of US-based SPACs stalking many private UK firms. Add to … More Delivering the goods or a bad taste in the mouth?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey’ve done the hard work so you don’t need to. It was great to see ShareAction’s list of the top 13 shareholder resolutions to watch this AGM season – every investor or adviser should be putting this to the asset managers they work with to hear where they stand on these issues. We’re in a … More Social Conscience: The New Asset Management Competitive Advantage
Reading Time: 5 minutesFirst published in LCP Vista If I had £1 for every article I’ve seen on inflation … well, I might just have enough for a basket of goods, at today’s prices! And it’s a big week this week for inflation watchers with Fed, BoE & BoJ So … I did my best to summarise all … More Will the Inflation Dog Bark?
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn 1981, an enterprising economist at the World Bank named Antione Agtmael was trying to win backing for the idea of a fund investing in developing economies. He was struggling with the name, and he knew this mattered. He was stuck on “third world equity fund”, but his colleagues weren’t sure. The name “Emerging Markets” … More The Concept of Emerging Markets is an outdated relic, we need a new paradigm
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow look I know we all want to put 2020 behind us and move on as fast as we can, but investors would be well served in reflecting on their decisions. Seeing we saw almost a whole market cycle encompassing fear, panic, greed and euphoria in just one twelve month period, we certainly got quick … More Investors: did you decide well?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m not one for predictions, especially when we’ve just lived through a year where many forecasts went out the window shortly after the ink on them had dried. However I feel I’m on fairly safe ground with the prediction that investors will find themselves asking at least THREE of the following FIVE questions at some … More Five questions that investors will be asking themselves in 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutesFirst featured on LCP Viewpoints I’ve seen several crises over my investment career most notably the 2008 crisis which occurred at a formative time in my industry development the lessons of which certainly influenced me – and I think many of my peers – for many years after (for better and worse). So I think … More Five things I learnt in 2020
Reading Time: 6 minutesGDP growth? US non-farm payrolls? Fed funds rate ? Oil price? VIX, change in the Baltic Dry index? All of those might make good candidates, but when it comes to overuse one number trumps them all thanks to its seductive power. The Price/Earnings ratio. Let me explain why. There’s quite a lot of psychology bound … More The most overused number in investing
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor a spotify playlist of all these episodes click here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the quality of free content in blogs, articles and podcasts these days is I think on a par with what you’d get in a masters degrees in times past, if you know where to look. … More The Top 12 FinPods of 2020
