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Cambridge Weekly – 18th January 2021

Fiscal turbo replaces lame duck Trump As we wrote last week, there is a broad consensus that this year will see a strong economic rebound as mass vaccinations finally put an end to the pandemic – even if we have…

18th January 2021

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Perspective acquires Independent Life & Pensions Group in Corby

ILPG currently advises 440 wealth management clients and manages £120 million of client assets. Due to ILPG’s corporate activities, it also has a significant number of non–wealth management clients who also continue to provide a good stream…

11th January 2021

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Cambridge Weekly – 11th January 2021

End points and new beginnings Just like 2020, 2021 has kicked off with rather more lively news flow than many will have hoped for when they gladly said goodbye on New Year’s Eve to what many experienced as a truly…

11th January 2021

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Cambridge Weekly – 21st December 2020

Goodbye to all that December usually has a ring of ‘Silent Night’ in the investment world and, in a year where practically all else has changed, at least this has stayed the same. In the UK, news that millions more…

21st December 2020

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Cambridge Weekly – 14th December 2020

A high stakes game of principle chicken This week’s edition was meant to focus on our annual outlook for the coming year, while working under the assumption that the UK and Europe would by now be operating under a ‘skinny’…

14th December 2020

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Cambridge Weekly – 7th December 2020

December concerns over baubles and bubbles As the world faces up to a not-so-jolly Christmas season, it may be surprising to learn that sentiment across the global economy was reported to be quite strong last week. Admittedly, this is mostly…

7th December 2020

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Cambridge Weekly – 30th November 2020

Fiscal floundering During a week when global stock markets continued their more gradual upwards trend, government policy was in full focus, but offered little in support. For the UK, it looks like ‘out of the frying pan into the fire’…

30th November 2020

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Cambridge Weekly 23rd November 2020

More tunnel before the light The November rally in stock markets finally petered out last week as it felt as if ‘November finally got the memo about 2020’. This was despite further positive vaccine news that bolstered optimism for next year. Last…

23rd November 2020

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Cambridge Weekly 16th November 2020

Change is in the air. Investors have enjoyed another very good week. Optimism had already returned the previous week, with the US election eventually delivering a clear verdict. Last week then brought the news that literally everybody had been…

16th November 2020

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Cambridge Weekly – 9th November 2020

Looking beyond the obvious We wrote only last week that markets hate uncertainty. Given that equity, bond and commodity markets were all quite a lot stronger at the end of the week, many investors must have gained clarity, if not…

9th November 2020

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