Market Commentary

5th October 2021 It has been a strange couple of weeks. If you had gone to sleep in the tranquil third week of September, and woken up in the fourth, you would have been startled [...]

9th August 2021 Since early May the main UK and European stock market indices and Japan have drifted sideways, Asia ex-Japan is down about 5%, and China down 12%. The US stock market is up [...]

30th April 2021 Since November 2020 we have been like a stuck record highlighting the opportunities and advances in the UK.  It isn’t us being parochial – far from it. It is now a matter [...]

5th February 2021 There is much which is positive and encouraging. Last year was difficult, extreme, and tragic, in so many different ways. Yet, as observed in our recent monthly commentaries, there is growing investment [...]

13th January 2021 At the end of the last blog (“UK World Beating – seriously!”) I promised that this month the US investment mania would be covered off.  Well, the US is an asylum which [...]

15th December 2020 “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd” Voltaire in 1767 Confidence is a vital, perhaps THE vital, driver of markets.  As I write, there is evidence that confidence in [...]

30th November 2020 We know what you’re thinking, and yes, Good Divorce Week is a real thing, created by family law firm Resolution.  The aim is to provide practical help, highlighting ways for separating parents [...]

06 November 2020 A COVID Quarantine Odyssey (Guest blog) Julia Zhu, China Macro Analyst, Matthews Asia [As most of the UK is now in some form of lockdown again, here is fascinating insight into how [...]

06 November 2020 Donald Trump did it his way.  Not with the style of Frank Sinatra – it was more Sex Pistols. Here I try and make sense of some of what has happened this [...]

7th October 2020 Like the sailor with a clear destination and route map, successful advisers and investors must adapt to storms along the way. As you already know, we saw the growing storm clouds before [...]