A Personal Retirement Bond (PRB), AKA a Buy Out Bond (BOB) is, in my mind, essentially the pensions equivalent of a waiting room.
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Blockchain revolution – A new wave of digital infrastructure
We believe Blockchain has the potential to impact the world as much as the internet did in the 1990’s and become the next big infrastructure of innovation.
“The problem with company A”
The importance of incorporating the correct principals of investment above and beyond risk and return characteristics has been (and will no doubt continue to be) widely discussed.
Gold: a barbarous relic?
The phrase above dates back from John Maynard Keynes’ from his book, “A Tract on Monetary Reform” written in 1923
Exotic ILS perils: why bother?
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) are most commonly known for their exposure to natural catastrophe risks such as earthquakes or hurricanes, however there is a small and lesser known category of ILS exposed to what might be termed exotic or man-made risks, for example, pandemic, terrorism or cyber risk
Partnership Whitepaper: Is a passive approach appropriate in the non-investment grade debt markets?
Investors have debated the merits of active and passive investing for decades with proponents on each side making valid points in support of and against ………..
Could crisis alpha be the next big thing?
In this article we discuss why investing in Currency Strategies are a strong consideration for the markets ahead
Healthcare ripe for disruptive innovation
Over the past 12 months, news headlines signal that the industry’s resistance to disruption may be at a tipping point; healthcare is on the brink of embracing disruptive innovation in a big way.
Whatever it takes…. to raise inflation
The European Central Bank has consistently failed to meet its inflation target in the seven years since the region’s sovereign debt crisis. Nor has the market any faith that it might do so in future.
Busting myths that stop you from investing in the future
We thought we would cut through the many myths that surround investing. We thought we would start with one of the most commonly used one – now is not a g0od time to invest.
Fear and (dys)functionality
It appears that we have some serious cognitive biases around risk, and biases are seldom a good thing. In fact, irrational fear can become self-fulfilling.
Frontier investing, the final frontier?
We believe it is worthwhile incorporating frontier market exposures within an emerging market portfolio
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