Investment Committee Update – Plotting the Journey…
As governments around the world start to consider their exit strategies from lockdown, they will be thinking long and hard around the risks and how best to manage them. It will be imperative to have plans in place to monitor and evaluate containment, so they can ensure the…
The Investment Committee
17th April, 2020
Coronavirus – Far from over, but glimmers of hope…
The last five weeks have been transformational for the world. We are all feeling the effects of the change, not least the rapid pace that it arrived. At first there was panic buying of toilet rolls, milk and bread. Investment markets fell indiscriminately as people sold assets to…
The Investment Committee
10th April, 2020
Quarter 1 2020 Investment Review…
We understand that worrying about your finances is not an added burden you need to carry during a time like this and so we want to alleviate this worry as much as we can. We want to reassure you that all of the team are working…
DB Wood Team
3rd April, 2020
You make the most of your money in a bear market, you just don’t know it at the time!
“Bull” and “Bear” markets are characterised as rises (bull) and falls (bear) of over 20%. They get their names from how the animals attack their prey – bulls bring their horns upwards, and bears hit with their paws downwards. Over the course of the last 100 years, we…
The Investment Committee
27th March, 2020
A Stay at Home Recession – An Update from our Investment Committee
It has been another incredible week in investment markets. Perhaps the most violent (from a volatility perspective) in history. All assets have moved in extreme ways… even government bonds, that are supposedly “risk-free”, lost considerable value. Interest rates have been cut to all-time lows, and Government spending has exceeded anything…
The Investment Committee
20th March, 2020
Coronavirus – Second Update from our Investment Team…
Please note that as a result of the current market turbulence, our Investment Team will be increasing the frequency of their communications to ensure clients are up-to-date and informed. Global equity markets are in the middle of one of the most severe corrections in history.
The Investment Committee
13th March, 2020
Coronavirus – An Update from our Investment Team…
This week will finish as the worst week for equity markets since the global financial crisis in 2008. We can’t argue that the rise in case numbers and geographical spread hasn’t increased the need for concern, but we must also consider that the media hype spreads fear and…
The Investment Committee
28th February, 2020
5 minutes with… Kat Armeanu, Financial Planning Trainee
As part of our blog schedule, periodically we will be providing interesting updates from the wider team at DB Wood. In our first issue we sat down with Kat Armeanu, a Loughborough University student who was previously an intern, and is now currently completing her placement year with…
DB Wood Team
21st February, 2020
Coronavirus Trumps Brexit – January Update
The world we live in never ceases to surprise us. Reflecting on our New Year’s resolutions we’d be forgiven for thinking that leaving the European Union would be the biggest news event in January. As it happened, other than some pics of Boris and Big Ben on the…
Alex Chappell
7th February, 2020
Buy to Let Property – A Cautionary Tale…
The trend of buy-to-let landlords selling their properties continues to gather pace. Tax changes, tighter regulations, lending restrictions, you name it, the buy-to-let property sector has had it all. This has caused, what was once an excellent investment opportunity, to become far less profitable. In fact,…
Ashley Brooks
24th January, 2020
