Presenting the inflation tug of war, sponsored by COVID…
Markets have been described as a weighing mechanism for future outcomes. They generally reflect the consensus of what people expect to happen, though in reality there are many differentiators on a micro level, so it is necessary to drill down country by country and sector by sector. In…
DB Wood Team
23rd July, 2021
As individuals within the investment team, we are conscious not to believe our own propaganda, ensuring our views are as balanced and logical as they can be. Placing too much emphasis on our own opinion can be dangerous, and after all, none of us have a crystal ball.
Alex Chappell
8th July, 2021
The importance of setting goals…
It all started with me sat on an exercise bike in the summer of 2019. As part of my role here, I was in the middle of coordinating our annual DB Wood Static Bike Ride (if you’re a long-standing client of DB Wood you’ll be familiar with the event…
Georgia Ashley
11th June, 2021
One of my fondest childhood memories was playing chess with my Grandad. I say ‘playing’… it felt like intense mental competition as an energetic 9-year-old, but hindsight would suggest ‘learning’, or being ‘taught a lesson’, are better ways to describe it. Now I’m certainly not talking as a…
Alex Chappell
4th June, 2021
Maybe a return to life as we (used to) know it… I am sure as a collective we are looking forward to life reverting back to how we remember it. Despite the obvious hardship that has ensued for many, there will be aspects from the COVID…
Ashley Brooks
21st May, 2021
The last four or so weeks have been more important than they’ve looked. Q1 was full of back-and-forth shifts, as investors tried to get to grips with how the re-opening of economies would unfold, and what implications that might have on variables such as interest rates and inflation.
DB Wood Team
6th May, 2021
Planning and Compounding – two key ingredients…
A couple of weeks back, we released a blog on the power of compounding (https://www.dbwood.co.uk/blog/the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world/). Getting a return, on top of a return, on top of a return (you get the picture), over long-time frames, leads to huge benefits that we can’t quite comprehend. Our brains think…
DB Wood Team
30th April, 2021
The Eighth Wonder of the World…
Financial planning and investing are intrinsically linked, though we are often asked for investment tips without regard for any plan… “what can I buy to achieve high returns?” or something along those lines. The answer is usually not what’s expected, specifically because the person asking often does not…
Ashley Brooks
16th April, 2021
Quarter 1 2021 Investment Review
Market Review The economic environment looked set to improve in 2021. We entered the year on the back of successful vaccine news, with a roadmap for the future, one where in theory we had a great chance to turn the tide on the pandemic. The Brexit…
The Investment Committee
1st April, 2021
‘From time-to-time financial markets get disconnected from reality’. This was the opening line to our Quarter two investment report last year. We’re now approaching the one-year mark since Boris Johnson announced to the UK that everyone must stay at home, thus kickstarting one of the biggest periods of…
DB Wood Team
19th March, 2021
