2020 has proven to be a year of challenges, loss and opportunity for investors and wider society alike. One of the discussions being had during the pandemic has been the need to diversify holdings, and spread both risk and rewards across a wider range of asset classes. The discussion about alternative investment should not be […]

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Through an ongoing global pandemic and a seemingly never-ending Brexit negotiation process, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across the UK have been forced to operate in a climate of uncertainty. Rules and regulations are changing by the day, and as a new strain of Covid-19 emerges and the UK prepares to dive out of the […]

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On Monday the Treasury announced that it would be extending its emergency business loan schemes to enable SMEs to ‘top up’ their borrowing, in an effort to help companies survive the new English (and perhaps soon UK-wide) COVID lockdown. As per the new amendments announced by the Chancellor, businesses will have until the end of […]

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With the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, making it clear that negative interest rates could be a real possibility, it is time for investors, savers and entrepreneurs to start factoring in what these controversial measures could mean. Bank of England will have little interest in savers Aside from being the mainstay of […]

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On Thursday evening, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that renewed lockdown measures would be implemented in Northern England, including the Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and West Yorkshire regions. These recently reimposed restrictions ban separate households from meeting each-other at their homes, and follows resurgences in COVID-19 cases in each of the respective areas. The reminder […]

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