We are in the middle of a synchronized downturn. Analysis of the quarter or quarter change in GDP globally and in the US makes grim reading – worse than anything observed in the past. Partially, this is due to the global reduction in activity through lockdown restrictions to mobility. Yet, if equities were to be […]

10 September 2020: Dynamic Planner has confirmed the dates for its Digital Autumn 2020 Training Academies. Following the success of its Spring 2020 Training Academies, which were rapidly moved online in response to this year’s Covid-19 crisis and lockdown, these latest events will also be staged virtually. The first of the events will take place […]

Louis Williams – Head of Psychology & Behavioural Insights at Dynamic Planner – analyses the risk profiling process, from start to finish, for your clients. He considers: why are risk profiling questionnaires psychometric? What does psychometric mean? What are the alternatives for financial advice firms? What are the pitfalls to avoid? And how did Dynamic […]

By the Fidelity Multi Asset Income Team – Eugene Philalithis, George Efstathopoulos & Chris Forgan We are yet to see this extent of recovery in fundamentals for equities and dividend payments, and while earnings have generally been better than expected across regions and sectors, there is the risk that they could stall from here. In […]

A client whose financial adviser had relied upon performance scenarios required in a Key Information Document (KID) at the start of this year, may have been unprepared for this year’s coronavirus crisis. The same could also potentially be said if their adviser relied upon past performance of an IA sector to highlight potential returns in […]

Dynamic Planner has expanded its fund risk profiling service to include investment trusts. Broadening the range of investment vehicles analysed by Dynamic Planner, the first trust to be risk profiled is the Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust plc, assigned a Dynamic Planner Risk Profile 7 (on a 1-10 scale). To date, Dynamic Planner risk […]

Looking back over the first half of the year, January seems to be a completely different era. In between, an unprecedented health crisis has uprooted medical care, financial markets and the prospects for the global economy. In spite of the sharp rebound in markets, allocators are still reeling from the vehemence of the sell-off. As […]

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By Sam Liddle, Sales Director, Church House Investment Management If you’re a young person, with no job and little prospects, then Rishi Sunak’s recent jobs announcement would have given you cause for hope for the future. But it was less positive for committed savers, with retirement on the horizon, and recent retirees wondering what income […]

We have all been grateful for a little help at some point this year. Whether it has been an understanding boss, or a driver delivering your weekly food shop – it has been very welcome. We have also been happy to help others and it has felt good to give back, even in only a […]

The pandemic this year has impacted different sections of society in different ways. An example: research by Legal & General highlighted that 1.5m people could now delay retirement because of Covid-19 and its financial impacts. This year’s subsequent lockdown, demanding people spend extended time at home than they might otherwise, has further caused many to […]

By Louis Williams, Dynamic Planner Head of Psychology and Behavioural Insights This year’s coronavirus crisis has impacted the adviser-client relationship in such a way that online communication is now essential. Advice firms face the question of whether this mushrooming trend will impact the levels of trust their clients have in the advice they receive long-term […]

By Product Manager Josh Knight When we first released the review process last summer, we spent a lot of time thinking (and testing) how to ensure it was easy to use. Hopefully, you can tell. We know from talking to users though that there are always times when a little help and gentle pointing in […]

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During this life in lockdown, I have found myself doing a lot of things I always thought of but didn’t get to until now – writes Andrew Morris, Product Specialist at Canada Life Investments. Recently, for example, I listened to Stephen Fry’s books, Mythos and Heroes, on audible whilst attempting to do yet another amateur […]

£1trillion of assets is set to pass between generations over the next nine years¹ – but, according to research, 70% of family wealth is lost by the end of the second generation and up to 90% by the end of the third². The main contributor to this is a lack of communication between families – writes […]

Global appetite for environmental, social and governance concerns continues, of course, to grow – arguably exponentially. Governments and courts worldwide too are taking affirmative action. In February 2020, here in the UK, the Court of Appeal ruled that plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport were illegal, because they ran contrary to the government’s […]

By Sam Liddle, Sales Director, Church House Investment Management The confidence with which the year started, a new UK government with a working majority and a Brexit strategy in place all seems like a distant memory. So much for our contention in Q4 last year that we were past ‘peak uncertainty’. Everything changed over the […]