If you were wandering around Newark last July, you might recall images of crowds gathered, distant jingles from money buckets, and the occasional “C’mon mate, pedal faster!” That was us completing a static bike ride outside Potterdyke House to raise money for charity. We covered 600km in under…
DB Wood Team
30th June, 2017
The investment industry is terrible at making things simple. It likes to hide behind jargon and phraseology, aiming to confuse and amaze. It makes the people sound clever and what they do extremely difficult. However, it’s no coincidence that often the fund managers with the best performance records are…
Alex Chappell
16th June, 2017
Uncertainty to follow, whatever the outcome…
As we sit 6 days away from the UK General election, one could be forgiven for thinking back to last June’s Brexit vote. At 10pm on the evening of polling day, the leave campaign was still priced in at 10-1 with certain well known bookmakers. Just as they…
Ashley Brooks
1st June, 2017
This is a letter sent back from the future by an advanced digital being. Dear Debbie Wood, This email finds you via a manipulation of space -time from far in the future. I am writing to warn you about the growing…
Alex Chappell
19th May, 2017
What’s on the menu this spring…? Oh no, not politics again! Every time the TV’s on in our house, politicians or chefs seem to dominate. Perhaps cooking is the central theme; one cooks a range of (generally) tasty fare, whilst the other cooks the books… or so it…
Ashley Brooks
5th May, 2017
Following the busy and eventful 2016, we decided that our staff deserved a quiet beginning to 2017. More than anything just to make up for what we put them through with our successful ’40 events for 40 years’! Even we admit that completing 20,000 press ups, having more…
DB Wood Team
21st April, 2017
Investment Review Quarter 1 2017
Market Review Investment markets started 2017 with momentum. Supported by positive global growth data, rising inflation, and stimulated further by Donald Trump, promising huge tax cuts and infrastructure spending. Markets showed a lot of belief that the world had progressed from the low growth, low inflation,…
Alex Chappell
7th April, 2017
Budget 2017: Few surprises but plenty of detail
The entrance of Philip Hammond into the exchequers seat got off to a slow start in November as he delivered a relatively uneventful Autumn Statement. Surely, five months on, his first full budget would be more compelling? Unfortunately, not. Its actually turned into a bit of a mess…
DB Wood Team
24th March, 2017
An increasingly expensive drive to work…
A forty-minute commute to work doesn’t float many people’s boats. Personally though, I find it gives me some down time. When I’m not analysing how bad my backhand was the night before, my mind often tries to make sense of changes in the investment world. So it’s not…
Alex Chappell
10th March, 2017
Question the Committee: Edition 3
Chairman’s opening remarks: I would first like to say thank you again to all those who submitted their questions for this edition. We received more than ever, making it a tough task to filter them down to a final 10. The current world around us is…
The Investment Committee
24th February, 2017
