Worldwide Financial Planning

Life is unpredictable, but two key legal tools - Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) and a Will, can give you control and peace of mind, ensuring your wishes are respected while protecting your loved ones from unnecessary stress.

If equity markets are looking for a clear signal, bond markets appear ever more convinced that central banks will cut rates at this month’s meetings and there will be more to come.

We all have our investment or pension portfolios, and we want the best from them as that’s what brings us the security, and the ability, to do the things we want.

The FOMC meeting came off the back of a decent CPI print. May’s inflation data came in softer than consensus expectations with headline CPI decelerating slightly to 3.3% versus 3.4% in April.

In monthly terms, CPI was 0.3% (consensus: 0.1%), compared to 0.6% in March. Similarly, core CPI inflation (ex-energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) came in at 3.9% (consensus: 3.6%) vs 4.2% in March.

An end to the interest rate hiking cycle would be welcomed by US consumers, who have seen new US mortgage rates spend four weeks above 7% for just the third time this century. Despite this, new home loan applications increased by 2.3% in the week ending August 25.