Investment Committee Financial Planning News
Volatile year draws to a close
- 19th December 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
No CommentsWe saw broad and deep losses across asset classes in 2022, as investors feared slowing global growth and priced in sharply tighter monetary policy. Sky-high inflation forced interest rate hikes…
December brings some cheer
- 5th December 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
December has begun on a positive footing for investors, with market participants choosing to focus on the positives rather than the negatives, and most equity markets now trading above bear market…
Strength in Weakness
- 28th November 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
Market sentiment seems to have improved significantly from one month ago. The release of the minutes from the Federal Open Markets Committee’s 2nd November meeting offered documented…
Past peak inflation?
- 15th November 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
There were three big stories in capital markets last week: the US midterm elections, the latest crash in the surreal world of crypto currencies, and the release of US inflation data for October
Halloween, challenges remain
- 31st October 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
The most turbulent October experienced by UK bond markets since 2008 is drawing to an end and one could easily get the impression nothing of significance happened.
Policy leaves markets fearful
- 26th September 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
The last two weeks have been sobering for investors world-wide, with all major markets (including bond markets) falling between 5% and 10%. The summer rally…
The End of Eras
- 12th September 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
With great sadness, we pass from the second Elizabethan age. Our Queen was a constant during this period of intensely rapid change. Across the political spectrum…
Resolute Fed & The Markets
- 30th August 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
All eyes were on the annual Jackson Hole conference last week, where mildly hawkish US Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jay Powell declared it “must keep at it until the job is done”
New PM, good news for investors?
- 22nd August 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
It’s almost certain Liz Truss will win the Conservative Party leadership contest and become the UK’s next Prime Minister on Monday 5 September. She will face a very difficult start…
The ECB carrot is back
- 25th July 2022
- Posted by: Celticfp
- Category: Investment Committee
Below is an article from one of our key investment partners in relation to the news announced last week that the European Central Bank (ECB) has raised interest rates by 0.5% points
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