By Stewart Richardson, Chief Investment Officer of RMG Wealth Management We held our quarterly investment meeting last week (please let us know if you would like to receive a copy of the chart pack), and as you would expect, in both preparing for the meeting and in discussion during the meeting, we thrashed out […] Read more »
Global business cycles: converging at last?
By Paul Diggle, Economist at Aberdeen Asset Management The business cycles of the major economies are out of sync. While the US and the UK are several years into a sustained expansion, the Eurozone economy has only recently begun to show signs of repair, and the emerging markets are tipping into downturns of varying […] Read more »
GDP Q1 data: “It still feels like the script of the UK economy has been penned by Dante”
By Marcus Bullus, trading director at MB Capital In looking at today’s 1Q GDP data for the UK, it is true that we have avoided a profound psychological blow for the UK’s consumers and businesses. But just because we’ve dodged the triple dip does not mean we’re back in business. Despite this rare piece […] Read more »