Investing can sometimes feel like a black hole, pulling in as much time and energy as you’re willing to give. As one busy professional put it: “It used to consume my evenings and weekends.” With recent tariff threats stirring fresh market turbulence, that...
Lyfords quarterly newsletter reviews key financial market events that have impacted portfolio returns. Each quarter we have an article on a financial issue we believe will interest our clients. In addition we often post news updates and blogs on our web site at...
Silicon Valley Bank – minimal portfolio exposure Two US banks, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, have gone into a government-controlled wind down. Silicon Valley Bank was among the largest 20 US banks and was affected by the loss of value of their bonds as...
Last year was a difficult year for share and bond markets. Markets were negatively impacted by Reserve Banks across the world sharply increasing interest rates to combat inflation. There was also the negative impact of the Ukraine war (on oil and food prices) and...
Long-term investing versus speculative investing is very much about having patience and riding out the highs and lows and not missing the best performing days. In our previous article on time in the markets versus timing the markets we looked at the S&P500 index...
The folly of chasing returns When you look at world share market returns are there some countries that you should focus on to get higher returns? The video below looks at returns across a wide range of countries looking for patterns that could be exploited. This...
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Eugene Fama, with two others, for laying “the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices”[1]. Having been (along with our clients) the direct beneficiaries of Fama’s work, we wish to congratulate him on...
When is the right time to invest? Some investors say they will wait to invest after markets have settled down. The problem is there are always news events which unsettle the share markets. Right now (March 2018) its Trump and trade barriers, previously its been oil,...
