Archive

10Mar
2020

Good news at Flowers McEwan

Two pieces of good news in times when there seems to be a lot of bad news around: Firstly, we are delighted to let you know that Jared Bowers, whom many of you will know, has recently announced his engagement to Sophie. They ...

04Mar
2020

Gender-orientated financial advice

It’s a touchy subject in this day and age – should the provision of financial advice be tailored differently for men and women?

04Mar
2020

Sustainable Investment Champions

Interestingly, our pursuit of ethical, sustainable and impactful investment contributes to the diversification (see separate article) in our portfolios in a really healthy way.

04Mar
2020

Diversification – a Crucial Rule of Life

Last year Neil Woodford, the rock-star “stock-picking” fund manager of the last decade or so was relieved of his flagship fund and suffered the ignominy of watching its liquidation. For many years Woodford produced ...

04Mar
2020

COVID-19 & your investments

A friend of mine who is the head of Sales at a UK national office supply company tells me that they sold 30,000 bottles in two days two weeks ago and are on back order with the manufacturer. Zoom shares are, well, zooming, as ...

04Mar
2020

March 2020 – Client Newsmail

At the risk of clogging up your inbox, here is our latest Newsmail with some articles which would be worth reading. A reflection from an investment perspective on COVID-19 and its impact on the stockmarkets; an explanation of ...

16Jan
2019

January 2019 – Client Newsmail

All of us at Flowers McEwan would like to wish you a successful but not-too-exciting investment year ahead. In this exciting newsmail we have: some calming investment counsel for unpredictable times; a nudge to check that ...

16Jan
2019

How to achieve an unbelievable savings goal

I was recently reminded of some wise but simple advice about how to save. Warning: this advice is hard (like brushing your teeth and hitting your step target each day) and boring (in the short term, like watching your garden ...

16Jan
2019

Avoiding Sim-Swap Fraud

Murray writes: Recently my daughter’s phone stopped working for no apparent reason.  As she is using her phone a lot for work this was an immediate point of crisis. She investigated and was distressed to learn that she ...

16Jan
2019

Brexit Investment Blues

Despite the fact that uncertainty in the investment markets is always a certainty – they are often telling us that if there is one thing they don’t like – it is uncertainty. Well, the uncertainty is very obvious in ...