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10 Dec 2021

Is it time to look more closely at the Alternative Investment Market?

• posted by Matt Strachan
• Financial Advisers

  This article was first published by Nucleus on  9th December 2021 and can be found at the following link https://illuminate.nucleusfinancial.com/blog/it-time-look-more-closely-alternative-investment-market   With the global economy slowly recovering from pandemic lockdowns, Covid-19 continues to have a heavy impact on some regions of the world, keeping the supply chain badly out of kilter.   Good luck…

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11 Sep 2020

Markets & Portfolio News

• posted by Matt Strachan
• Private Clients, Financial Advisers, Blog

In his latest AIM Market update, Matt Strachan considers the falls in dividend income this year and why AIM companies, in comparison with the FTSE 100, should see a much faster recovery. Click here to read the full article.

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18 Aug 2020

Summertime Blues: AIM Market Update

• posted by Matt Strachan
• Private Clients, Financial Advisers, Blog

In his latest AIM Market update, Matt Strachan considers why real value can be found in the more cyclical stocks held in our AIM IHT Portfolio. Click here to read the AIM Market update.

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13 May 2019

You can have a decent retirement, but you must keep saving

• posted by Matt Strachan
• Private Clients, Blog

‘What did the Romans ever do for us?’ is the entrée to a classic Monty Python sketch. One of the things they did do is introduce one of the first recorded pensions, by way of an annuity to Centurions who had finished their service. Subsequently people relied on savings, or more likely being looked after…

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13 Nov 2018

Recent Market Movements

• posted by Matt Strachan
• Financial Advisers, Blog

The sharp fall in stock markets around the world last month has led to it being dubbed ‘Red October’.  To paraphrase Mark Twain, ‘October is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks’ (he then also goes on to name the other 11 months!).  Some stock markets, particularly in emerging countries, had already been falling…

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9 Nov 2016

The State We’re In

• posted by Matt Strachan
• Blog

The State We’re In – by Matt Strachan, Chief Investment Officer So now we know. After all the rhetoric, accusations, twists and turns, the 45th President of the United States of America is Donald Trump. Yet again the polls and bookies failed to correctly read public opinion and we have another surprise on our hands….

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