Worldwide Financial Planning

Peter McGahan continues with his focus on banks by asking the question - are banks really in trouble? Last week's column, and today's column, are examples of understanding an investment before you go anywhere near it.

Bank shares have yet to recover, but broader US and European markets are back to their level seen at the beginning of March as investors have settled on a view of where interest rates are headed. The view that we are very close to the peak of the hiking cycle received further support as headline inflation in the EU fell significantly - although core inflation actually rose.

'Let’s remember the USA isn’t Europe. They have a two-tier banking system and SVB is just a regional bank.' Peter McGahan writes this week about what's happening with banks and asks - are banks really In trouble? Here are some of the answers to that question.

While most UK and European banks are in decent shape they are struggling with bond markets where short-term bonds pay more interest than long-term ones, opposite to a bank’s typical business model.

Over the last few weeks, our CEO Peter McGahan has been writing his weekly column about ISAs explaining that understanding how markets fluctuate is important to taking away the stress of investing. Here are two cool ISA tips for you....

Time will tell how effective the budget announcements will be, by themselves not very would be my guess, but as the start of a long-term plan of targeted pro-growth policies they could have an impact eventually.