Chancellor’s Summer Statement…
With the job retention scheme tapering over the summer months, there was always a need for more stimulus to protect against a quick rise in unemployment as we head towards the end of the year. The question is whether what was announced on Wednesday was enough?…
The Investment Committee
10th July, 2020
Quarter 2 2020 Investment Review…
Market Review From time to time, financial markets get disconnected from reality. Though there are few occasions where this has happened to the same extent as it has over the last three months. Economies around the world have been plunged into recession, a billion or so…
The Investment Committee
2nd July, 2020
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
