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‘Navigator’ is the term used for someone who is responsible for the path or journey of a vessel or aircraft and the science around ensuring it gets from place to place, and to its eventual destination, safely. As such, Clarion’s new fund name fits well with the medium to long-term objective to provide a balance […]
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Investment management
We are delighted to announce our Head of Advice Delivery Alistair Cartwright has landed a top financial industry award. He has been named Paraplanner of the Year (In House) in the prestigious Professional Paraplanner Awards 2020. There was a record number of entries to recognise the expertise of paraplanning, indicating a highly competitive field in […]
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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 […]
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Thought pieces
Clarion Wealth Planning’s independent study into the psychology of selling a business has revealed the best guidance when planning a sale comes from those who had been through the experience – and the professionals. A sale of a business may be more difficult and prolonged than many owners expected. Ron Walker, founder of Clarion Wealth, […]
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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 […]
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Investment management
As always we sincerely hope that all our clients, their families and friends are keeping safe and well. On the other side of the windows out of which we now watch the world, spring is in full bloom and the first shoots of the plan to exit lockdown is gathering pace. Covid-19 has had catastrophic […]
Tags: COVID 19, debt risk, disruptive innovation, economic commentary, investments, markets
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Investment management
In recent weeks we have debated at length the impact that the ongoing coronavirus crisis is having on the global economy and financial markets. One of its more noteworthy effects has been the contrast between businesses that are relatively well sheltered or perhaps stand to benefit from the long-term impact of the outbreak and those […]
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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’ […]
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Financial Planning,
Investment management
Stock market and economic commentary: A realist adjusts the sails
“The Pessimist complains about the Wind; The Optimist expects it to change; The Realist adjusts the Sails.” William Arthur Ward, writer Despite the release of data showing the UK economy suffered a record contraction in activity in April and cautionary comments from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of America (Fed), the past few […]
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Tags: economic commentary, equity, investors, long-term, recovery, risk, stock market
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