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Market update – 30th November 2020

News: 30 November 2020

The independence of Central Banks matters. It has also been under considerable doubt this year. The funding of the COVID support programmes across the world has essentially been that of governments borrowing from their own Central Banks.

Market update – 23rd November 2020

News: 23 November 2020

When we come out of Lockdown II (The Return of the COVID), we are returning to Boris’ Three Tiers. We will be told that we have all been very naughty and must behave much better, but these will be soundbarks without a lot of bite.

Investment Trusts Masterclass with Ben Mackie

News: 20 November 2020

Fund Manager Ben Mackie featured in an Asset TV Investment Trust Masterclass which asked the question: 'How have Investment Trusts weathered the COVID storm and how are they positioned going forward?'

Market update – 16th November 2020

News: 16 November 2020

What if the newly spring-cleaned PM is the worked example to demonstrate that immunity to COVID really does wear off? Where does that leave the vaccine?

Hawksmoor CEO - video update November 11th

News: 11 November 2020

Amid the second lockdown, but with a potential COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, our CEO Sarah Soar considers some of the exciting developments happening now and in the near future at Hawksmoor.

Market update – 9th November 2020

News: 09 November 2020

Today’s breaking news though is that the cavalry may just be coming into sight, with bugles blaring. Pfizer, the American pharmaceutical company, has said that its vaccine is 90% effective, and apparently without adverse side effects. Markets have gone bananas.

Market update – 2nd November 2020

News: 02 November 2020

Too many businesses are down to their last coppers; for the government again to pull the plug on their revenues and not to provide support would be horrendous. Messrs Johnson, Sunak and Bailey have some easy decisions to make. The issue is whether they have the courage to do so.

Jim Wood-Smith and James Clark in Citywire Top 100

News: 30 October 2020

Our CIO Private Clients & Head of Research Jim Wood-Smith and Senior Fund Analyst James Clark have been named in the Citywire Top 100.

Market update – 26th October 2020

News: 26 October 2020

The differential that takes the headlines is the two men’s environmental policies. Trump is perceived as the coal-burning climate change denier. Biden is the green new-dealist. Both clichés have large elements of truth, but they are brush strokes, not the full picture.

Market update – 19th October 2020

News: 19 October 2020

We have a windbag of bile versus a windbag of precious little. Regrettably it matters to the whole world who it is that wins this parochial election of windiness. But won’t it be wonderful when it is just all over.