#31 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. A text version of this interview will be available here shortly. Please check back. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments
Continue → #30 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. A text version of this interview will be available here shortly. Please check back. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments
Continue → #23 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. A text version of this interview will be available here shortly. Please check back. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments
Continue → #22 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. A text version of this interview will be available here shortly. Please check back. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments
Continue → #21 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. A text version of this interview will be available here shortly. Please check back. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments
Continue → #20 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. Nick Griffith: Austyn, good to speak to you. It’s our weekly Q and A. Thursday the 23rd of July. The year’s going fast. Austyn Smith: It is.
Continue → #19 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. Nick Griffith: Good afternoon, Austyn, how are you? Austyn Smith: Yes, very well. Thank you. Nick Griffith: Very good. It’s our weekly Q and A, it’s Thursday,
Continue → #18 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. Nick Griffith: It’s Thursday, the 9th of July, Austyn Smith, talking to Nick Griffith, doing our weekly Q&A. So a few questions to get through, looking forward
Continue → #17 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. A text version of this interview will be available here shortly. Please check back. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments
Continue → #16 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. Nick Griffith: Good afternoon, Austyn, how are you? Austyn Smith: Very warm. I think we’re sitting in the middle of a heatwave at 31 degrees this afternoon.
Continue → #15 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. Nick Griffith: It’s Thursday afternoon, 18th of June, and it’s our weekly Q&A, thanks for joining us. Let’s get stuck in. Reflecting on last week, we had
Continue → #14 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on these extraordinary times. Nick Griffith: Very good to have you on the call this afternoon, this is our weekly Q and A, Nick Griffith talking to Austyn Smith. I say
Continue → #13 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: My name’s Nick Griffith. It’s Friday, the 5th of June, and I’m sat here interviewing Austyn Smith for our weekly Q&A to cover the
Continue → #12 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: Good to have you on our weekly Q&A. It’s Thursday, the 28th of May 2020. So thanks for everyone’s questions, we’ll just jump straight
Continue → #11 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: Good to speaking to you. It’s Thursday afternoon, the 21st of May 2020, and we are doing our weekly Q&A. We’ve just been chatting
Continue → #10 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: Very good to have you join us this afternoon. It’s Thursday, the 14th of May, and here we are with our weekly Q&A. So
Continue → #9 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: So it’s Nick Griffith here interviewing Austyn Smith. Thanks very much for everyone listening and thanks for your questions, do keep them coming in.
Continue → #8 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: Great to have you on the call. It’s our weekly call. It’s Nick Griffith speaking to Austyn Smith. And it’s now Thursday 30th of
Continue → #7 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Nick Griffith: Very good to be speaking to you today. It’s Nick Griffith asking some of your most popular questions to Austyn Smith. We are
Continue → #6 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments can fall as well as rise Portfolio performance varies according to client circumstances
Continue → #4 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments can fall as well as rise Portfolio performance varies according to client circumstances
Continue → #3 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on the continuing unprecedented events. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments can fall as well as rise Portfolio performance varies according to client circumstances
Continue → #2 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts on this week’s turbulent market events. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments can fall as well as rise Portfolio performance varies according to client
Continue → #1 🔊 Austyn’s Weekly Financial Strategy. Below is a link to a short Q&A audio interview I’ve just recorded where I give my thoughts after the recent, turbulent events in the markets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance The value of investments can fall as well as rise Portfolio performance varies according
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Our cautious approach is helping to preserve values in these uncertain times. This week the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time this year, in an attempt to head off a slowing U.S. economy. This matters because global markets tend to follow what’s going on in America. On the face of it America
Continue → Since the autumn of last year we have been taking profit and boosting cash, and this has largely allowed us to side step the worst of the stock market gyrations, which made 2018 the worst year since 2008. As I mentioned in my ‘Protect the Downside’ update in January, if the US Federal Reserve were
Continue → Hello and Happy New Year, this is just a short note to cover recent weeks and my thoughts for the first few months of 2019. My mantra has always been ‘Protect the downside’, and so the changes we made last September to take some profit and boost cash have helped in the recent volatility. It
Continue → Towards the end of the summer, and during September we positioned portfolios 15-20% in cash due to a tightening of the economic cycle. Since then stock markets around the world have fallen 10% from their recent highs, and so by being adaptable, this has helped protect you from the full effects. Our cautious style of
Continue → Withdrawing historic levels of market stimulus On Wednesday night, Janet Yellen, the chair of the US Federal Reserve, gave a hugely important press conference in which she confirmed that the Fed would start ‘the great transition’ from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening. This was an historic moment because since 2008 huge amounts of money have
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I hope you are well and this quarter I’m writing slightly later because I wanted to squeeze a bit more out of the Trump Rally before we begin to park some profit. Since the Brexit referendum last June our currency has devalued some 15% and this has boosted our stock market, and in the USA
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This is just a short update on what I have been doing behind the scenes, in devising strategy for the coming year. The key to what we do, is in the diversity of asset allocation, and keeping a closer eye on things. By being adaptable we are able to curtail what might have drifted and
Continue → Data is Pointless, Information is Meaningless, Insight is Wisdom. One of my key roles in overseeing client relationships is to provide clarity, and to help clients sift through the noise. Data is momentary, it flicks across our screens. Information is daily and summarises the data, which over time will provide some knowledge. However, people can
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I hope you are well, and again I’m writing earlier this quarter, so that you can benefit from the recent uplift in the American stock market. This week marked a series of ‘all time’ highs in their stock market and this has helped boost the UK’s main FTSE 100, and enabled emerging markets to rebound.
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