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“The farther back you can look, the further forward you are likely to see” Winston Churchill Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 (1926-2022) The death of Her Majesty the Queen has been a timely opportunity to take stock of our nation and to re-examine what kind of place we have become. Contrary to the miserable musings […]
Tags: mini Budget, stock markets, the Queen, Ukraine
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Investment management
We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen. For over seventy years she has dedicated her life to service for her country and the Commonwealth and been a figurehead of national unity and stability at a time of enormous change. The death of a 96-year-old does not come as a surprise, […]
Tags: office closure, Queen Elizabeth, state funeral
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The Clarion Investment Committee met on Thursday 18th August 2022. The following notes summarise the main points of consideration in the investment Committee discussions. Economic Snapshot European gas prices hit new record highs as fears of a shortfall over the winter continued to grow. A zinc smelter in the Netherlands and an aluminium smelter in […]
Tags: Adventurer Portfolio, Defender Portfolio, Discretionary Investment Management, Explorer Portfolio, funds, investment, Meridian Portfolio, MGTS Clarion Explorer, MGTS Clarion Meridian, MGTS Clarion Prudence, MTGS Clarion Navigator, Navigator Portfolio, Pioneer Portfolio, Prudence Portfolio, Voyager Portfolio
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Investment management
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, […]
Tags: gas prices, inflation, investment strategy, recession, Ukraine
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Investment management
Here at Clarion, we are a firm built on strong relationships. We pride ourselves on our personable approach and see the value in spending time getting to know our clients. It is equally important for our clients to get to know their Financial Planner and build a trusted relationship with them. In the first of […]
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Clarion Wealth Planning is accelerating plans to become carbon neutral as part of our new initiative called Best Service, Best Workplace, Best World. We had originally aimed for carbon neutral status by next April but we are now expecting to achieve the milestone by the autumn. We are working with Carbon Neutral Britain, an organisation […]
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Our chairman Keith Thompson and Clarion Chartered Financial Planner Jacob Hartley sit down with colleague Ella Davies to discuss their careers and predictions for the future of financial planning. Keith, with his 59 years’ membership of the CII, and 25-year-old Jacob, who qualified as the youngest Fellow four years ago, may seem poles apart but […]
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The fifth anti-money laundering directive was introduced across the European Union (EU) back in 2018. EU member states, including the UK, were required to implement this directive into national law by January 2020, with the aim of preventing the use of the financial system for money laundering and terrorist financing. In light of the new […]
Tags: registration, TRS, trusts
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Financial Planning
The Clarion Investment Committee met on Thursday 14th July. The following notes summarise the main points of consideration in the investment Committee discussions. Economic Developments The US economy added a much-greater-than-expected 372,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%. Bond yields rose on the news as investors judged that this strengthened […]
Tags: Adventurer Portfolio, Defender Portfolio, Discretionary Investment Management, Explorer Portfolio, funds, investment, Meridian Portfolio, MGTS Clarion Explorer, MGTS Clarion Meridian, MGTS Clarion Prudence, MTGS Clarion Navigator, Navigator Portfolio, Pioneer Portfolio, Prudence Portfolio, Voyager Portfolio
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Investment management