by Cambridge Investments | Oct 3, 2018 | News
Brexit clamour vs. real market news The UK’s establishment had pinned high hopes on a Brexit breakthrough at the EU’s Salzburg (non-Brexit specific) summit. But the rest of the EU had a different agenda, so disappointment was inevitable. Judging by the vastly...
by Cambridge Investments | Oct 3, 2018 | News
Financial crisis – 10 years on It was 10 years ago this week that US investment bank Lehman Brothers was allowed to default. This event marked the beginning of the ultimate escalation from a severe credit crunch to a full blown global financial sector meltdown. The...
by Cambridge Investments | Jul 20, 2018 | News
Chris Swanepoel, our estimable head of AIM investments, says that he doesn’t know anybody who has stopped doing their weekly shopping because of Brexit or Donald Trump.His job is to invest in companies and a lot of them are doing better than OK.Companies across the...
by Cambridge Investments | Jul 13, 2018 | News
What a week of drama and upset! For all the drama in the football, the political and global economic side were even more dramatic – at least from an investment managers’ point of view. We had suggested last week that the UK government may experience some staffing...
by Cambridge Investments | Jul 6, 2018 | News
It was a week with two faces – strong economic data across the developed world on the one side and disruptive political rhetoric on the other. Donald Trump’s administration imposed tariffs of 25% on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports and China retaliated in kind. At...