A lot has changed since the United Kingdom initially went into its first lockdown in March. After the initial market turbulence, we continue to ensure our clients investments are well positioned and suit their circumstances. Over the past 3 months the UK stock market has generally been in a slow decline until the positive news […]
Where do we go from here? At the beginning of the year we would have seen opinions ranging from “COVID-19 doesn’t exist” to “The whole world is going to end”. Now with more understanding about the health effects of the virus and how it may impact the economy we can take a more balanced view. […]
Rishi released a ‘Mini Budget’ as we are slowly recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and I enclose some of the key points for your perusal: Job Retention Bonus. This follows on from the current Job retention scheme. This is a one-off payment of £1,000 to employers that have used the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) […]
Anything you do financially will bear some kind of risk. With ‘risk’ being a very emotive word, it is important that any risk is well defined and quantified. What is Investment Risk? There are a number of investment risks, however, they all have the same principal concern; that your investments will not behave the […]
Why do we invest? For many investors, the aim is to provide returns over the medium to long term that are greater than that available from cash savings. The trade-off for these greater long-term returns is that you no longer get them in a straight line and your investment value could be down in the […]
Comfort in the unknown This week I will discuss a measure which shows that the investment market has become more comfortable with the expected market effects of COVID-19. The VIX index (Chicago Board Options Exchange’s Volatility Index) – you can see why they abbreviated it – is a measure of the stock markets expected volatility […]
One of our investment themes showing its benefit Little has changed since our previous update as we start to see some continuity of expectations. I thought this would be a good opportunity to highlight one of the more specific investment issues that has raised its head as a result of the Coronavirus and how […]
How and when will financial markets recover? This update might be a little ambiguous but that’s because there are still some unknowns. Here are my thoughts on what the recovery may look like. Whilst there are still unknowns, markets will continue to be priced based on a reasonable worst-case expectation. That is, […]
As we come to the end of the first week of the government’s ‘stay at home’ policy, the markets have again provided rough terrain for investors. This week we have seen the risk associated with trying to time markets. On Tuesday 24th March the FTSE100 posted a 9% gain; highlighting just how volatile markets […]
Please find the link below to a PDF update on Future Asset Management LLPs current business update; Continued service delivery update If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch. Take care and stay safe everyone! Kind regards Future Asset Management LLP
