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Market Update 21st November 2022

News: 21 November 2022

Market Update 14th November 2022

News: 14 November 2022

Hurst Point Group Acquires Metis & Gore Browne

News: 07 November 2022

Hurst Point Group Limited is delighted to announce that, following FCA regulatory approval being granted, the acquisitions of Gore Browne Investment Management & Metis Wealth Limited and Metis Asset Management Limited, have now completed. 

Market Update 7th November 2022

News: 07 November 2022

The world of investment management is typically way ahead of governments and has clocked that successful transition to net zero is in everyone’s long-term interests. Even this, though, is likely to be given a blow in the solar plexus by this week’s mid-term elections in the US.

Market Update 31st October 2022

News: 03 November 2022

Market Update 17th October 2022

News: 17 October 2022

These markets, as we know, had another bout of teddy-chucking in response to erstwhile Chancellor Kwarteng’s mini-budget. Why? No one actually knows whether it would have worked, or would have been inflationary.

Market Update 10th October 2022

News: 10 October 2022

As we said at the start, this is unhelpful and the price of oil has duly risen by around $10/bbl over the past week. As ever with OPEC, though, little is quite as it seems. In terms of an organised cartel, OPEC leaks like a proverbial colander. This is more about the ego of Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince and now prime minister of Saudi Arabia.

Market Update 26th September 2022

News: 26 September 2022

Anyway, whether inflation was caused by the Bank (which it was, mostly) or by the price of petrol (which it mostly isn’t), the headline rate is still 10%, give or take. It is also, as if by magic, accepted wisdom that tax cuts are inflationary and thus any fool can see that cutting taxes with 10% inflation is a stupid thing to do.

Market Update 20th September 2022

News: 20 September 2022