Hot Topics – Our Top Tips on Probate…
Our long-standing history of looking after client’s financial affairs was the key motivation behind the development of our ‘Wills and Probate’ service, which is designed to provide our clients with the security and confidence that their estate will be dealt with professionally and with as little upheaval as…
DB Wood Team
26th June, 2020
June Performance Update – How Are We Doing & What Matters From Here?…
A famous economist once said “it is better to be roughly right, than precisely wrong”. This bares truth in investment management just as much as anywhere else. As an industry, we are obsessed with trying to forecast the future, down to specific details such as how many people…
The Investment Committee
19th June, 2020
Question the Committee – Coronavirus Edition
A big thank you to all our clients who submitted questions this week – it has been great to continue to get a high level of interaction with our blogs, and most importantly understand areas where you would like more information. Given the volume of responses, we have…
The Investment Committee
12th June, 2020
May Portfolio Update – No Rest for the Wicked…
Hindsight is a wonderful but dangerous thing. It’s best used to constructively assess previous actions, aiming to learn lessons that can be applied to the future. Often though, it is used to manipulate a situation for one’s own interests. Questioning our high death numbers compared to other countries…
The Investment Committee
4th June, 2020
Governments in the west are spending and borrowing on a vast scale as they counter the effects of the pandemic. In the UK, public borrowing jumped to £62 billion in April alone—massively exceeding the previous monthly high of £22 billion in April 2012. Providing context, the UK government…
The Investment Committee
29th May, 2020
Equity markets have recovered some of their losses over the last month or so, with the benchmark UK equity market now down around 20% so far in 2020, after falling 35% from its January high to its lowest point in March. That 35% loss was the sharpest in…
The Investment Committee
21st May, 2020
Introducing iSecure, powered by DB Wood…
We can take videos with our phones, talk to friends through our laptops and send documents thousands of miles in seconds. But could you find your house deeds, a tax return from five years ago or even the insurance valuation for your jewellery at a moments notice without…
DB Wood Team
15th May, 2020
We encounter behavioural biases many times within our daily routine. Under the current circumstances for example, “confirmation bias” is very prevalent, which represents the tendency to search and favour information that supports our own beliefs. Most of us are likely to place more weight on an article that…
The Investment Committee
8th May, 2020
We are over the peak according to Boris and his team of scientific experts, and can look forward to details next week about how we might begin the journey towards normality. Timing wise, we are around two weeks behind mainland Europe, and as their tentative steps show, normal…
The Investment Committee
1st May, 2020
The World During and After Coronavirus…
Emergencies tend to fast-forward historic processes. Decisions that usually get deliberated upon for months or years, are decided in minutes. Fresh and potentially dangerous technologies are forced into practice, because the downside of doing nothing is greater. We are fast approaching a time where it will…
The Investment Committee
24th April, 2020
