Rain, heavy at times, clearing later. Sunshine will follow.
We often talk about investment volatility being a positive. It’s a hard one to wrap our emotions around, as we are wired to fear things changing, especially with respect to our hard-earned savings. Financial security is something most of us strive to achieve, but as much as we try to…
Alex Chappell
22nd April, 2022
Market Review Much has changed since we wrote our 2022 outlook just three months ago. We have a war in Europe, an energy shock, and rising interest rates – quite the opposite of an ideal environment for markets. The silver lining is we enter Q2 with much more attractive valuations…
DB Wood Team
8th April, 2022
I’m 28, so why do I care about Financial Planning?…
It’s a fair question, and one that many people around my age ask themselves. Take those in the 18-24 age bracket for example, one in three don’t know why they would need a pension at all, with a similar number also thinking that they could afford to wait until they’re…
Georgia Ashley
25th March, 2022
The decision to invest in times of crisis is one of the hardest to make. It goes against all your natural instincts and biases, though as so often is the case in life, the hardest decisions are usually the most important. After a difficult start to the year, our portfolios…
DB Wood Team
11th March, 2022
Ukraine Crisis: DB Wood Performance Update…
As always at times of market stress, we feel it’s important to communicate our views and activities to clients at the earliest possibility. In this respect it is not our first rodeo – the very recent experience of Covid volatility in early 2020 a key example, but we also managed…
DB Wood Team
25th February, 2022
A teacher once said to me that sometimes the best things come in brown paper bags, and that just because something looks bland on the outside, doesn’t mean its worthless on the inside. Similarly, just because something looks shiny and well packaged, doesn’t mean it’s more valuable. Gifting can be…
DB Wood Team
18th February, 2022
Warren Buffet once wrote “a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses”. It may seem like a simple statement, but its often the simple things that we forget in periods of volatility. Investment markets are, after all, an aggregation of all our…
DB Wood Team
4th February, 2022
As we noted in our recently issued 2021 performance update and 2022 outlook, we were expecting a turbulent first quarter this year. Although we are only in mid-January, markets have indeed brought some early volatility, so we thought it appropriate to drop an interim line to clients to reiterate our…
DB Wood Team
20th January, 2022
Quarter 4 2021 Investment Review…
Market Review We entered the last quarter of 2021 with significant ongoing COVID uncertainty, rising inflation and with policymakers considering their hand, on interest rates. We finished it with slightly less COVID uncertainty, still high inflation levels and more restrictive policy with a tick up in interest rates. Importantly, markets…
DB Wood Team
7th January, 2022
Well, 2021 went by in a flash! In my closing blog last year, I thought the central case for this year would be one of significant improvement on a number of fronts. From a COVID perspective, while I do think that’s true in some ways; billions of people have been…
Ashley Brooks
17th December, 2021
