Category: DB News
The importance of setting goals…
It all started with me sat on an exercise bike in the summer of 2019. As part of my role here, I was in the middle of coordinating our annual DB Wood Static Bike Ride (if you’re a long-standing client of DB Wood you’ll be familiar with the event…
Georgia Ashley
11th June, 2021
Maybe a return to life as we (used to) know it… I am sure as a collective we are looking forward to life reverting back to how we remember it. Despite the obvious hardship that has ensued for many, there will be aspects from the COVID…
Ashley Brooks
21st May, 2021
Planning and Compounding – two key ingredients…
A couple of weeks back, we released a blog on the power of compounding (https://www.dbwood.co.uk/blog/the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world/). Getting a return, on top of a return, on top of a return (you get the picture), over long-time frames, leads to huge benefits that we can’t quite comprehend. Our brains think…
DB Wood Team
30th April, 2021
‘From time-to-time financial markets get disconnected from reality’. This was the opening line to our Quarter two investment report last year. We’re now approaching the one-year mark since Boris Johnson announced to the UK that everyone must stay at home, thus kickstarting one of the biggest periods of…
DB Wood Team
19th March, 2021
2021 started where 2020 left off; at a fast pace. Lockdowns were extended across the majority of the developed world, vaccines rolled out at unprecedented rates, and markets moved by social media to extents we have never seen before. Starting with the virus, it became clear…
The Investment Committee
5th February, 2021
Quarter 4 2020 Investment Update
Market Review We approached Q4 with cautious optimism. First the caution; political noise was bound to increase around Brexit and the US election, with neither seeming likely to pass quietly. We were also due to receive some of the most important clinical trial results in history.
The Investment Committee
8th January, 2021
It is difficult to know where to start this year, however the declaration of have a ‘Happy New Year!’ will have more meaning this year than in many other years, given the context of where we have all been during 2020! Whilst it has been a…
Ashley Brooks
23rd December, 2020
As most of us hoped and felt was likely, November was the month when we received positive vaccine news. In our last performance update we wrote about how quickly the mood music for investment markets could change on the back of this positive step forward. So far in 2020, there…
DB Wood Team
4th December, 2020
Small margins count… welcome to Dynamic Planning, powered by DBW
Without stating the obvious, it is clear that our main goal as investment managers is to ensure our returns meet our client objectives. In other words, to ensure that they help our clients live the lives they want to live. Sounds a little cheesy, we know, but ultimately…
DB Wood Team
27th November, 2020
After six straight months of positive portfolio returns, October looked to be inevitably more challenging. The political world has seldom faced more pressure in such a short space of time, with Brexit negotiations and US election campaigns seeming like drips in the ocean compared to our wider global…
The Investment Committee
4th November, 2020