Five Months Into The Year

Every year is different from what you expect, and that is particularly true in financial markets. It is easier to say over the first five months of 2022 which investment areas have lost you money, especially if you also factor in the enhanced inflationary backdrop. There will always be some element of volatility in...

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Challenges and Opportunities in May

Whilst the spring weather continues to warm, plenty of financial sector issues continue to worry global investors across both equity and bond markets. Meanwhile heightened inflation levels continued to impact bank account balances, and the war in Ukraine has led to many tragedies along with heightened geopolitical, commodity and supply concerns....

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Matt Robinson: West Lancs Sprint Triathlon

West Lancs Sprint Triathlon was great fun and the perfect introduction to triathlons. I’d recommend it to anyone who fancies having a go. Luckily, I was sat next to a veteran Iron Man athlete on the poolside pre-race, who talked me through his strategy, which calmed my nerves and set me up for a...

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Dan’s 15,000 Tandem Skydive

Dan’s 15,000 Tandem Skydive Back in March, my brother and I completed a 15,000ft tandem skydive at Black Knights Parachute Centre. The whole crazy idea came from a wild joke, mentioned at the dinner table for my brother’s birthday and concluded with us both throwing ourselves out of a plane. The entire experience was...

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Raymond James Ribble Valley Investment Strategy Quarterly.

Come Together

It has been 60 years since the Beatles signed their first record deal. The rock group from Liverpool dominated the industry for nearly a decade – and long after that as individual performers. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr created timeless tunes and memorable messages that we can borrow today to...

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Raymond James Ribble Valley. The Spring Statement. March 2022

The Spring Statement: The Detail Behind The Headlines

If a week is a long time in politics, then the near five months since Rishi Sunak’s second 2021 Budget feels close to a lifetime. Back on 27 October, it looked like 2022 would be a year of recovery in which the pandemic faded in the rear-view mirror and ‘transitory’ inflation duly transited to...

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Ribble Valley Raymond James Investment Market Commentary - Citizen of the world - March 2022

Citizen of the World

Events in Eastern Europe over the last week have correctly dominated TV, radio, newspaper and online news. It also meant that almost all equity or bond investors made losses during February, many for the second consecutive month unless – like the U.K. equity market – there was high proportional exposure to commodity sector shares....

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Raymond James Ribble Valley Investment Market Commentary - Welcome to February

Welcome to February!

There is a famous quote by the legendary Belgian professional cyclist Eddy Merckx that he “raced from 1 February to 31 October every year, competed for everything”. Unfortunately for financial markets there is never a defined season, and, whilst 2021 ended positively, January 2022 will go down into the history books as being a...

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Raymond James Ribble Valley Challenges & opportunities Investment market commentary - Jan 2022

Challenges and Opportunities

Whilst the application of many millions of booster jabs have given a strong protection against the Omicron variant, offering the hope of COVID normalisation, global financial markets have not had a positive first few weeks of 2022....

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