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From Seneca Investment Managers' public marketing material. Seneca is now part of Momentum Global Investment Management. My attention was...

As is the case with many things in the financial world, there is no one clear definition of the term ‘strategic asset allocation.’ While...

What do the sharp falls in equity markets across the world port end? Were they simply the inevitable result of prices that had gone up...

The 10 year US Treasury yield has fallen from 2.5% on 27 June to 2.1% currently (as at 25.08.2015), a very substantial change. Normally,...

Murphy’s Law says that what can go wrong, will go wrong. It is thought to be named after Captain Ed Murphy, an aircraft engineer who,...

Murphy’s Law says that what can wrong, will go wrong. It is thought to be named after Captain Ed Murphy, an aircraft engineer who,...

My core belief about the first interest rate rises here in the UK but also across the pond is that they’ll happen much later than many...

Unlike equities, bonds or property, commodities cannot be valued on the basis of the income they generate. This makes it hard to feel...

We have introduced an explicit value-oriented approach to our investment process. We think multi-asset value investing is both new and...

In recent years there have been a number of complaints against advisers in which the Financial Ombudsman Service has ruled that the...

I like charts. This month I take a look at MSCI’s major global sectors and see if there is anything that can be learned from what has...

The question of concern currently is at what point does the Bank of England put the brakes on? This matters because equity markets,...

We’re positioned for interest rates staying where they are, not rising. Inflation needs propping up, not suppressing. True, [Bank of...

It is generally agreed that a little inflation (in the order of 2% per annum) is a good thing. Anything higher than this impedes private...

I am a big believer in keeping tactical asset allocation simple. The more complicated you make it – either by considering too many...

Every now and again I feel the need to wonder why people are so scared of equities, in light of how stable dividend distributions are...

Despite some proclaiming that the price fall was a sign of a weakening global economy, I suspect that increased supply has been mostly to...

I am a value investor. I hate to give him even more publicity than he already has, but Woodford Patient Capital Trust’s Neil Woodford...