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Clarion chartered financial planner Peter Butcher takes a look at how the lockdown has changed how we communicate with clients and whether that change will be permanent. Video conferencing software has been available for several years, but it is only now that it has been truly embraced. The benefits of Zoom are clear; the reduction […]
Tags: clients, communication, COVID 19, financial planning, lockdown, meeting, video conferencing, Zoom
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Financial Planning,
Thought pieces
After his shock at research revealing one in four clients had not heard from their IFA during the Covid-19 crisis, our business development director John Winstanley takes a look at what service you should expect from your financial planner in lockdown. We are hearing a lot about the “new normal” in terms of how business is being done during the coronavirus outbreak. Many businesses […]
Tags: communication, Coronavirus, financial planning, new normal, relationships, service
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Financial Planning,
Thought pieces
Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held at 2pm on 21st May 2020 by video link. Committee members in attendance: – Sam Petts (SP) IC Chairman and Financial Planner (Clarion Wealth Planning) Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/Director Dmitry Konev (DK) Analyst (Margetts Fund Management) Toby Ricketts (TR) Fund Manager (Margetts Fund Management) Apologies received from both […]
Tags: Explorer, funds, investment, Meridian, Prudence, stock market
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Financial Planning,
Investment management
As we move from April into May the world economy remains in the grip of the Covid-19 crisis and its associated social-distancing lockdown but, thankfully, estimated fatality rates are being revised downwards and the rate of new infections is on a clear downtrend in most countries. There could be a moment where infections suddenly ‘melt’ […]
Tags: adaptability, Coronavirus, COVID 19, economy, sales growth
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Financial Planning,
Investment management
Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held at 2pm on 23rd April 2020 by video link. Committee members in attendance: – Sam Petts (SP) IC Chairman and Financial Planner (Clarion Wealth Planning) Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/Director Ronald Walker (RW) Founding Director Dmitry Konev (DK) Analyst (Margetts Fund Management) Toby Ricketts (TR) Fund Manager (Margetts Fund […]
Tags: Explorer, funds, investment, Meridian, Prudence
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Financial Planning,
Investment management
As the coronavirus crisis continues, our chairman Keith Thompson shares his insight on the news and markets from around the globe: On behalf of myself, Ron Walker and all of the team at Clarion, I hope this pre-Easter update finds you and all your family and friends in good health. The human tragedy that is […]
Tags: Coronavirus, investment, markets
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Financial Planning,
Investment management
Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held at 2pm on March 26, 2020 by video link. Committee members in attendance: – Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/Director Ronald Walker (RW) Founding Director Dmitry Konev (DK) Analyst (Margetts Fund Management) Toby Ricketts (TR) Fund Manager (Margetts Fund Management) Sam Petts (SP) Financial Planner (Clarion Wealth Planning) Adam Wareing […]
Tags: Explorer, funds, investments, Meridian, Prudence
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Financial Planning,
Investment management
Delivered against a backdrop of stock market turmoil and a deepening coronavirus crisis, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rushi Sunak’s first Budget could not have been more dramatic. The Bank of England announced an emergency rate cut just hours before Mr Sunak promised to do “whatever it takes” to protect the UK economy from the coronavirus […]
Tags: Entrepreneur's Relief, Inheritance tax, Tax, The Budget
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Financial Planning
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From the whole team at Clarion, merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Market and economic commentary: Time to reflect
As always, we sincerely hope that all our clients, their families and friends are managing to stay well in these unprecedented and challenging times. Putting to one side the human tragedy and cost in terms of lives lost and health care, there is no doubt that as investors we are living through challenging and unsettling […]
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Tags: economic commentary, stock markets
Category: Financial Planning, Investment management, Thought pieces