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Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee February 2020

Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held at 1pm on February 13, 2020 at Overbank, 52 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/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 (AW) Director of Operations (Clarion […]

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Category: Financial Planning, Investment management

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Market and economic commentary: Coronavirus, February’s black swan event

Almost four years after the European Referendum and nearly 50 years after first joining, the UK has now left the European Union. Brexit is finally done although we are still in a period of transition until the end of 2020 and for now at least most of us will hardly notice any difference. While not […]

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Category: Business, Thought pieces

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Clarion kicks-off a new sponsorship deal with a grassroots football club

We are delighted to become official sponsors of an under-sevens grassroots football squad. Our new sponsorship deal with Ashton on Mersey Football Club means the under-sevens have been able to score a new kit for the whole section totalling 40 kids. Director of operations at Clarion, Adam Wareing, who also volunteers as the club secretary […]

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Category: Lifestyle, Our team news

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Is this the death of inheritance tax as we know it?

Recently an All-Party Parliamentary Group for Intergenerational Fairness (APPG IIF) published a report which recommends the abolition of Inheritance Tax in its current form. Here, we look at main reasons leading to the publication of this report and take a look at the recommended changes to this deeply unpopular tax. Inheritance Tax (IHT) is a […]

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Category: Financial Planning, Thought pieces

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Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee January 2020

Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held 1pm on 16th January 2020 at Overbank, 52 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/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 (AW) Director of Operations (Clarion Wealth […]

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Category: Financial Planning, Investment management

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Stock market & economic commentary……the January effect and more

We make no apology for referring to this stock market trend again this year, but the circa 1% rise in the UK Footsie 100 Index on the first trading day of 2020 is potentially a very good sign for Investors. A study of the Index over the past twenty years found that in 17 of […]

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Category: Business, Thought pieces

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Venture capital trusts for high earners

A Venture Capital Trust is a tax efficient, closed-end collective investment scheme which offers retail investors access to small unquoted, growth companies with generous tax reliefs to compensate for the higher risks involved. VCTs are listed on the London Stock Exchange. To compensate for the higher risk and illiquid nature of investing in VCTs, they […]

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Category: Business, Thought pieces

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Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee December 2019

Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held 11am on 11 December 2019 at Overbank, 52 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/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 (AW) Director of Operations (Clarion Wealth […]

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Category: Financial Planning, Investment management

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M&G Property Portfolio Fund

Early last month the £2.5 billion M&G Property Portfolio Fund was forced to stop investors from taking cash withdrawals from the fund. This is an open-ended fund where sales of units by investors can result in the manager being forced to sell some investments to realise cash to meet those redemptions. The fund had seen […]

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Category: Business, Thought pieces

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