How will you pay the bills if you were sick or injured and couldn’t work? There is a growing unease about the economic fallout of coronavirus (COVID-19), with many businesses … Read More
A dose of reality
Global equities fell back 2% last week, reversing their gains of the previous week and continuing the choppy pattern seen over the last month. The key to the market’s direction … Read More
Acquisition of Sterling Trust
Kingswood announces the acquisition of Sterling Trust, a major regional IFA platform, adding further breadth and scale to its distribution network which now includes 14 locations across the UK. This … Read More
Reality bites
Volatility returned to equity markets last week with the US market falling as much as 5.9% on Thursday. Global equities ended down 4.1% in local currency terms over the week … Read More
Fast and furious
Global equities saw strong gains last week. Markets gained as much as 5.5% in local currency terms, although the increase was a rather smaller 3.0% in sterling terms as the … Read More
The sun is still shining
Equity markets moved higher last week, breaking out of the trading range of the last month, with global equities gaining 3.2% in local currency terms. Markets have now recovered close … Read More
Alphabet soup
Global equities last week gained 2.5-3%, reversing their losses of the previous week. This continued the see-saw pattern of late, which has left markets in local currency terms marking time … Read More
Coronavirus and the importance of having a Will
Since the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), the number of people seeking to write new Wills has risen by over 30%, according to The Law Society. Understandably, the current situation is … Read More
Why the Coronavirus recession cannot be a costless event
Richard Jeffrey | Chair of Kingswood Investment Committee When I first came into the City in the late-1970s, the reverberations of the 1973-74 stock market crisis were still echoing around … Read More