Chris Brown, CIO, 10th March 2020 Here is an update on the impact of Covid-19 on the markets and our portfolios. The one piece of good news is the containment measures taken by early victims of the crisis (including Singapore and China) look to be working. As an example, China reported 40 new Covid-19 cases yesterday […]
Chris Brown, CIO, 28th February 2020 Here is a quick end of month market update. As you may know, this week equity markets have fallen sharply on fears of the negative impact of the Corona Virus on the global economy. To put this in perspective, as we write the UK FTSE All-Share index is -13.7% […]
IPS Capital has made a value-add merger with Raymond James branch Prospect Wealth Management. The Merger with the boutique adviser elevates IPS to the UK mid-market. To read the full press release, please click here.
In this video, IPS Capital’s CIO and Partner, Chris Brown, reviews 2019 and discusses his outlook for 2020.
Below is a well-known (in investment circles at least) graph of the investor’s emotional journey over time. We are showing it in this quarter partly as a check so we can pause to see where we are on this cycle today and partly to gently remind our clients of the inevitable ups and downs of […]
Chris Brown, CIO The old-fashioned mediaeval doctor would arrive at the hour of need, give his diagnosis and propose a cure (which, in the popular imagination at least, would always involve leaches). It is a well-known medical property that if a patient thinks he is getting cured this will often trigger a recovery even if […]
To repeat Warren Buffet’s famous phrase, it is only when the tide goes out you see who has been swimming naked. One of the more interesting developments of the last few months is that a couple of high-profile investors have been caught without trunks on, even in what has been a very benign, rising tide […]
Ros Price, Investment Committee Member. It is over a year since President Xi became President for life at the People’s Congress and at this spring’s meeting his power base was if anything consolidated even further. But there were some points of interest regarding the direction of the economy which are easy to have missed in […]
Q1 is an example of why investing can be hard. After the sharp sell-off in Q4, if you had told us that US and European data would continue to slow (with Germany looking recession-like), China only showing slim chances of a recovery and the Brexit deadlock remaining in place, we would have been pretty pessimistic […]
2018 was a tough year for markets. UK equities (measured by the FTSE All-Share index) fell by -9.5% (see Chart 1). However, this index is dominated by global multinational companies such as HSBC, Shell and GlaxoSmithKline. The more UK focussed FTSE 250 Index fell by -17.6%. Part of this is of course Brexit related (of which […]
