True lifelong financial planning for the serious business of life.
True lifelong financial planning
for the serious business of life.
True lifelong financial planning for the serious business of life.
True lifelong financial planning
for the serious business of life.
We have a wealth of expertise with plenty of financial guidance, opinions, thought pieces, news on business and personal finances and updates on what’s happening at Clarion. We add to these as much as we can so it’s worth a regular visit to this page.
Click here to sign-up to our monthly email, The Clarion, for regular updates.
Where stated, any investment performance figures referred to relate to past performance which is not a reliable indicator of future results and should not be the sole factor of consideration when selecting a product or strategy. The value of investments, and the income arising from them, can go down as well as up and is not guaranteed, which means that you may not get back what you invested. Unless indicated otherwise, performance figures are stated in British Pounds. Where performance figures are stated in other currencies, changes in exchange rates may also cause an investment to fluctuate in value.
In “Jerry Maguire”, a film about a sports agent, the hero’s client demands to be shown “the money”. The agent finds himself dancing to the tune of the only man he represents. And so, it is with stock markets which at the moment are obsessed with how Central Banks will react to slowing growth and […]
Category: Business, Thought pieces
Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held at Overbank, 52 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 7DZ at 13:00 on 18th July 2019. Committee Members in attendance Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/Director Ron Walker (RW) Director Dmitry Konev (DK) Analyst (Margetts Fund Management) Toby Ricketts (TR) Fund Manager (Margetts Fund Management) Sam Petts (SP) Financial […]
Category: Financial Planning, Investment management
Following on from our recent article on the Neil Woodford Funds and the reasons why we did not include these Funds in the Clarion Portfolios, we thought it might be helpful for our clients to understand the process followed by the Clarion Investment Committee and Fund Analyst when selecting and recommending Investment Funds. Of course, […]
Category: Investment management
Minutes of the Clarion Investment Committee held at Overbank, 52 London Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 7DZ at 13:00 on 18th July 2019. Committee Members in attendance: – Ron Walker (RW) Director Jonnie Whittle (JW) Director Keith Thompson (KT) Chair/Director Dmitry Konev (DK) Analyst (Margetts Fund Management) Toby Ricketts (TR) Fund Manager (Margetts Fund Management) […]
Category: Financial Planning, Investment management
Politics continues to dominate both stock market and general economic sentiment. In particular, the continuing trade dispute between the USA and China is a focus of concern for investors, as higher import tariffs start to come into effect. Sentiment has also been impacted in the technology sector by the US targeting Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, […]
Category: Business, Thought pieces
CHINA-US TRADE WAR—THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY? In recent years, many financial commentators have been predicting the end of globalisation and a move into a multi-polar world order, with disenchantment over widening income and wealth distribution driving a changed environment. The US trade war with China is an obvious recent example. In this commentary, we consider the […]
Category: Business, Thought pieces
The Clarion Investment Committee met for the first time this year to discuss fund performance moving into 2019.
Category: Financial Planning, Investment management
Meet Sharon Sutherland What is your role at Clarion? I am an ‘Adviser Client Support’, providing administration assistance to the adviser and paraplanner along with some additional duties. How did you take your first steps in to Financial Planning? In South Africa I started off in banking and worked there for around nine years. I […]
Category: Our team news
WOODFORD EQUITY INCOME FUND Clients will no doubt have seen some of the extensive press comments on the recent dealing restrictions placed on this fund by the Fund Manager. This Clarion commentary on the events leading up to the dealing suspension might be of interest and provide reassurance to our clients. Clarion considered investing in […]
Category: Business, Thought pieces