SPAC : The Final Frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship Post Brexit Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new financial opportunities. To seek out new investment and income. To boldly go where…
Do Not Pass Go
The UK’s Competitions and Markets authority has announced it will be running a number of antitrust investigation’s and probes into big tech including Google and Amazon. This has come off…
Can a Leopard Change its Spots?
Theres a line from the famous F Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby that comes to mind at the moment, ‘You can’t repeat the past.’ ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he…
Last Minute Xmas Deals
You’ve seen it, cheap bubbly, cheese and crackers, wine, last minute essentials on offer for the big day. On the continent however there might be other deals occuring. The Pound…
Between a Bloc and A Hard Place
ESMA has refused to relax rules around swap trading by EU banks operating in the United Kingdom. The hope was from, January the banks would continue under UK rules, this…
Final Countdown
The 2020 US election is nearing its final stages. At time of writing the contender Joe Biden holds 264 electoral votes, Trump 214. Trump can’t afford to lose any more…
God of War
US private equity firm Ares Management is currently in talks to buy scandal hit AMP, one of the largest finance groups in Australia. Market cap of AMP currently stands around…
Pound for Pound
Terry Smith, the enigmatic founder of Fundsmith and Manager of the ever popular Fundsmith Equity Fund has released a book. It consists of a series of essays written over the…
Winter of Discontent
Following further lockdowns, restrictions and unimpressive earnings from US tech giants, equity markets are on track for their worst week since March. As we move forward closer to year end,…
The King is Dead (Long Live the King?)
Cash as they say, is king. However this colloquialism has been the focus of debate over recent years. Increased ease of use of electronic and card based payment methods, couple…