Sustainable Investing – Your Savings & Your Pension.

Sustainable Investing – Your Savings & Your Pension.

  Sustainable investing has been a theme in financial markets for decades. That theme has broadened in recent years to include ethical investing, social responsibility, and corporate governance. Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) funds have...
The Cost of Trying To Time the Market

The Cost of Trying To Time the Market

Missing only a few days of strong returns can drastically impact overall performance.     John McWey, Financial Planner, Ardbrack Financial Limited. 021-4773833 / 083-4115277 jmcwey@ardbrack.com   Disclaimer: The content of this article is for general...

Hindsight Is 20/20. Foresight Isn’t.

The year 2019 served up many examples of the unpredictability of markets. Interest rates that US policy-makers expected to rise fell instead. American consumers’ confidence weakened as the year began,1 and news headlines broadcast fears of an economic slowdown. But...

Newsletter Summer 2017

Are equity markets too expensive? And how well diversified are you? Many stock market valuations are certainly not cheap, nor have they been for some time. One popular measure of valuation of the US S&P500 stock-market index is the CAPE ratio. This shows the...

Is Inflation making a comeback, and why does it matter to you?

Since the turn of the year, measures of inflation in Europe and elsewhere have turned higher. Some of this can be explained by the rise in oil prices (circa 50%) over the past 12 months, but are we starting to see a more general move higher in inflation after years of...