The world is watching with concern the spread of the new Coronavirus. The uncertainty is being felt around the globe, and it is unsettling on a human level as well as from the perspective of how investment markets respond. And, as we have seen so many times before, it seems the media is managing to [...]
Welcome to our October newsletter of 2019. October is the month when Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba in 1492. It’s also the month when the first hot air balloon took flight in Annonay, France, back in 1783, marking the first ever recorded feat of aviation. Forward to today, and headlines are reporting a global climate [...]
Welcome to our July newsletter 2019. July kicked off with a heatwave that brought plenty of sunshine and a well deserved break from the previous month’s rain. That’s the good news: in other news, the UK is bracing for a new Prime Minister to step into Number 10. Whether the Conservative membership chooses Boris [...]
Welcome to our June newsletter. With the Met Office predicting a summer of unsettled weather, it’s time to be prepared for both rain and shine! June is reportedly the month with the most daylight hours all year, so fingers crossed for a sustained period of sun soon! This month, we will see how the [...]
Welcome to our May newsletter, With Spring in full swing, let’s enjoy some fun facts about May before heading into the monthly news: the month launches with May Day, celebrated in England for over 2,000 years and traditionally involving morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and dancing around a maypole. In 1545, a 100 [...]
Welcome to our April Newsletter. Easter is upon us! To celebrate, here are not one but two fun facts about the holiday. First, the art of painting eggs originates from Ukraine and is called pysanka. Second, the tallest chocolate Easter egg ever was made in Italy in 2011; at 34 feet tall and weighing [...]
Welcome to our February newsletter. Following on from last month’s introduction, if you’re still persevering with a New Year’s resolution, an extra special congratulations to you. And if you’re one of the many people trying vegan, you may be interested to know that one of the old English names for February is kale-Monath (cabbage [...]
Happy New Year! Welcome to our first newsletter of 2019. We hope you had a chance for some rest and relaxation over the Christmas break (although for those of you with young families, this may have been tough!). You might be currently trying to stick to a New Year’s resolution. If you’ve lasted this [...]
Dr George Leeson, co-director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at Oxford University, explains to Fidelity's Ed Monk that soon 65-year-olds living another 35 or 40 years will be the norm and we will have...
Bill to the Bank of Mum and Dad could reach £6.5bn A recent report has suggested that the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ will be lending their children over £6.5 billion this year in order to help them onto the property ladder. The projected figure is around £1.5 billion higher than the £5 billion loaned [...]
