US Vice President JD Vance spelled it out in Munich – “there is a new sheriff in town” – and that sheriff’s policies are already having far-reaching consequences. While dealing with geopolitical uncertainties is clearly nothing new for long-term investors, Trump’s re-election has once again [...]

Investors who receive financial advice are four times less likely to be vulnerable than the general population, according to analysis¹. The study looked at a cohort of more than 5,000 advised investors, assessing them using a psychometric financial wellbeing questionnaire. Designed by an in-house behavioural [...]

If you want your investment portfolio to strike a good balance between risk and return, it’s worth knowing how correlation can impact your investments. If two different investments are perfectly correlated, their value will rise and fall by the same amount, at the same time. [...]

Improving conditions in the residential market Activity in the residential property market is picking up as house prices continue to show modest growth, according to Savills. In August, mortgage approvals were only 3% below pre-pandemic levels. In September, sales agreed and new instructions were 8% [...]

Sometimes stock markets appear to change direction because they have simply run out of either optimism or pessimism. There are of course good underlying reasons why stock markets rise and fall, but they also present an interesting history of the patterns of collective human behavior… [...]