Autumn Sixteen

Howard Cockburn discusses life as a wealth manager.

Events in politics and markets over the last few months would have been diffi cult to predict at the start of the year. The latest development from the Governor of the Bank of England, to cut…

In 2015 Kew Gardens threw open its doors to thousands of book lovers and introduced one of London’s best-looking literary festivals. As Bill Bryson motored across acres of stunning scenery in his…

Strategy is an easy word to toss into conversation, but few have a precise and clear understanding of what it means.

The recommendation by voters that the United Kingdom should leave the European Union is likely to be a watershed moment for the continent and to be followed by many weeks and months that will…

US equity markets have hit record highs despite historically stretched valuations and continued recession in US corporate profits. The FTSE100 did not take long to recover from the drop in the…

As well as the UK and US bond yields widening, the German and Japanese yields have converged to just below zero, also on the back of Quantitative Easing (QE) and other monetary stimuli.The US / UK…

Last quarter I suggested that it was unlikely that the Bank of England would raise interest rates – how wrong I was, when not only were rates cut to one-quarter of a percentage point, but also…

Had the team of comedians been asked to draft a theory of financial centres with equal succinctness, they would probably have put forward the view that you have to be an island if you want to be a…