Category: Blog
I’m 28, so why do I care about Financial Planning?…
It’s a fair question, and one that many people around my age ask themselves. Take those in the 18-24 age bracket for example, one in three don’t know why they would need a pension at all, with a similar number also thinking that they could afford to wait until they’re…
Georgia Ashley
25th March, 2022
The decision to invest in times of crisis is one of the hardest to make. It goes against all your natural instincts and biases, though as so often is the case in life, the hardest decisions are usually the most important. After a difficult start to the year, our portfolios…
DB Wood Team
11th March, 2022
Ukraine Crisis: DB Wood Performance Update…
As always at times of market stress, we feel it’s important to communicate our views and activities to clients at the earliest possibility. In this respect it is not our first rodeo – the very recent experience of Covid volatility in early 2020 a key example, but we also managed…
DB Wood Team
25th February, 2022
A teacher once said to me that sometimes the best things come in brown paper bags, and that just because something looks bland on the outside, doesn’t mean its worthless on the inside. Similarly, just because something looks shiny and well packaged, doesn’t mean it’s more valuable. Gifting can be…
DB Wood Team
18th February, 2022
Warren Buffet once wrote “a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses”. It may seem like a simple statement, but its often the simple things that we forget in periods of volatility. Investment markets are, after all, an aggregation of all our…
DB Wood Team
4th February, 2022
November Performance Review & Omicron Update…
November was progressing very nicely until Omicron turned up the heat in the last week of the month. The deluge of media coverage that has followed has concerned investors, and there has been some market volatility as a result. Our portfolio’s hit all-time highs in mid-November, though they have since…
DB Wood Team
3rd December, 2021
For several of us here at DB Wood, Newark-on-Trent has been home for many years. For DB Wood itself, it’s been home for the better part of 40. Our footprint reaches back to acquiring a small office in the Market Place in 2000, stretching then over to Stodman Street, to…
Georgia Ashley
25th November, 2021
As famous investor Chuck Prince once said “as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance”. For the last decade and a bit, the music has been the sound of money coming into the system to support economies in one form or another. The tune…
Alex Chappell
12th November, 2021
I’m sure I’m not alone in this… every Saturday at my local, they run a ‘Bonus Ball’ lottery that all the regulars take part in. If you’re not familiar, it’s simple. Each member pays a pound and picks a number between 1 and 59. If your number is picked as…
Georgia Ashley
28th October, 2021
Could the UK fall back into recession next year?…
Rising prices, record job vacancies (apparent full employment) and upcoming tax rises… not really an ideal set of economic circumstances heading into 2022! Consequently, many commentators are suggesting we may not be far away from a second recession in three years. Yet the Bank of England continue to talk up…
Alex Chappell
15th October, 2021