
Back off to the races?
There has, of late, been a certain amount of punditry about “style rotation” within equity markets. Will last year’s outperformance of “value” over “growth” resume, or did the resetting of ...

KYB – Know Your Banks
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has sent shockwaves through the financial markets, with many investors being blind-sided by the true state of their balance sheet that led to a ...

What have we learnt from history?
The world appears to be at something of a crossroads, with investors divided as to if last year was a temporary setback for markets, or if we have moved into ...

“Quality” is in the eye of the beholder
In the last decade quality has become something of a buzz word in investing. I suspect that no right-minded investment manager would set out their stall based on saying they ...

Uninvestable?
For some time, we have held the view that the UK stock market contains some decent companies that look cheap relative to a reasonable view of their future. We have ...

The kindness of strangers
As a nation the British like to borrow. In the thirty years prior to 2008, companies and households steadily took on more debt, punctuated by a “credit crisis” that called ...

They think it’s all over…
After a sharp rally in July that saw many previous stock market darlings recover some of their earlier falls, investors could be tempted to ‘think it’s all over’. The 10-year ...

Will there be a recession?
The question that many investors appear to be asking themselves right now is if we will see a recession – prompted by concerns that higher interest rates will undermine economic ...