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Investment Insights Q2 2025: Europe's Big Reset
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
In the opening months of President Trump’s second term, attention-grabbing trade policy and a dramatic pivot on Ukraine have ratcheted up the level of uncertainty investors are facing. Our lead article considers the ‘collateral improvement’ this has brought to Europe’s outlook for growth.
Investment Insights Q4 2019
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Trade wars continue to cloud the outlook for businesses and consumers. Closer to home, Brexit uncertainty has gone from bad to worse. Our new Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s first few weeks in office have been pretty spectacular.
COP26: what investors need to know
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Watch the first webinar in our ‘what investors need to know’ series, focusing on the human efforts to tackle climate change and why it matters to investors.
Review of the week: Inflation slows, stocks surge
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Stocks flew higher after inflation came in lower than expected. It’s tough and getting tougher for businesses and families though, especially in the UK.
Review of the week: Land of the rising prices
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
In a wave of central bank meetings this week, one of them is truly different. While all other developed world policymakers are pondering rate cuts, only Japan is considering rate hikes.
Review of the week: The Israeli-Hamas Conflict
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
This week has seen harrowing atrocities committed by the terrorist group Hamas against Israeli civilians. With so far more than 1,200 people reported to have been killed, this is the most serious cross-border attack Israel has faced in decades.
Review of the week: DeepSeek or deep fake?
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
A Chinese start-up says it created an AI tool at a fraction of the cost that Western rivals paid. It shouldn’t be a fatal blow, but the development should trigger answers to lingering investor concerns on runaway chip buying.
Rainbow Hub – creating new pathways for the young
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
We speak to Lyndsay Fahey, CEO of Rainbow Hub, about the charity’s brain injury rehab services that help children and young people reach their full potential.
Universal Credit and trusts: important changes
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Abigail Cuffe of Vincents Solicitors highlights how trusts and income received from a trust are assessed for new Universal Credit claims.
Review of the week: The language of trade
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
The US government plans to slap tariffs on virtually all imports to the US as part of ‘Liberation Day’. The details are yet to be revealed, but the most immediate effect is already apparent: higher prices.
Review of the week: A tale of two markets
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Equity and bond investors had opposite reactions to the US election. But Trump 2.0 may have less influence than investors first hoped or feared.
Planning for the future – making a will when there are capacity issues
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Rebecca Bristow of Shoosmiths has kindly contributed a piece on statutory wills and their importance when planning for the future.