Financial Crisis – 10 years on

Over the course of the weekend, stock markets have turned from euphoric recovery (US closed up +10% Friday night) to depressed tumble once more. In today’s investment update we discuss what has changed and what we

Until fairly recently, the activity we’ve seen in equity markets in response to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) could have been characterised as an ‘orderly’ repricing. Yet last week saw second-order market dynamics, driving valuations down to levels which don’t seem

Last week could be characterised as an “orderly” repricing of equity markets to the consequences of COVID-19 disruptions. This week has seen second-order market dynamics, driving valuations down to levels which do not seem particularly rational

While most people spent the weekend dealing with the prospect of the COVID-19 epidemic taking hold of UK life, the financial community woke up this morning to another, different – even if slightly more familiar –

Since our last update a week ago, market dynamics have developed very much along the lines we outlined as our expectation. The US Federal Reserve has taken the lead and lowered US interest rates by 0.5%

What a difference a week makes. For most of February, we had been discussing on these pages why equity markets had remained sanguine about the virus scare and even reached new all-time highs. At the end

We published an assessment of the market impact of the COVID-19 flu pandemic, and the medium-term changes to our 2020 market outlook on Wednesday, but following today’s media reports and the continued falls in stock markets

Global equity markets have taken a significant hit this week, as investors started to take news of COVID-19 spreading beyond China to the rest of the world more seriously. We thought it would be a good

Bubble Trouble Compared to last week, there have been few changes to the big picture narrative: Thanks to the virus containment efforts enacted by its government, China’s labour force is only now slowly returning to work

While investors enjoyed another upbeat week, the world’s medical profession (and the wider public at large) remained in a more troubled state, with concerns increasing after the World Health Organisation officially renamed this strain of the

January is behind us and what a year it’s already been. Investors have been bounced around from WWIII fears between the US and Iran, the formal Impeachment of the US president and the prospect of a

Changes in the housing market grab headlines in the UK. This makes sense: those who own homes (or want to) have a vested interest in the value of property. In economic terms, there is another reason:

The quiet period of Christmas and New Year has definitely ended. Davos World Economic Forum, Chinese Coronavirus, Q4 earnings season, central bank deliberations, first batch of 2020 business sentiment figures and – you guessed it –

All central bank liquidity or improved outlook too? Following the brief wobble after the escalation in tensions between the US and Iran, the risk appetite that drove the substantial stock market rally towards the end of

Tatton Asset Management (LON:TAM), the on-platform discretionary fund management (DFM) and IFA support services business, has today announced that is has appointed N+1 Singer as the Company’s Joint Broker to work alongside its existing Nominated Adviser and Broker,

Compared to last week’s ‘brink-of-war’ geopolitical shock start to the year over the US-Iran tensions, this week has brought relatively positive economic news, with not much to upset global markets, even if the general news flow

The collapse of the Woodford Equity Income fund along with the suspension of the M&G Property fund has driven IFAs to the doors of Tatton Asset Management. Tatton Asset Management PLC (LON:TAM) offers a range of

And it was all going so smoothly, we had planned to write that it was a quiet week. Christmas a fading memory and the New Year with had some positive news on US-China trade relations, helping