Worldwide Financial Planning

This week saw the UK get dragged into the simmering Middle East conflict between the US and Iran, when the Royal Navy had to intervene to prevent the Iranians from seizing a British tanker in the key shipping lane of the Strait of Hormuz.

As the holiday season has landed on us, those moving between Sterling and most other foreign currencies, have seen their buying power plummet.

This week was nicely summed up by President Trump's July 4th reimagining of the 1776 revolutionary war to include ye olde airports; incoherent markets with soft expectations fantasies winning out over hard reality.

The key in any investment portfolio is to have your portfolio well diversified, but some portfolios I have seen in the past, held large exposure to this one fund, far beyond what made sense diversific

The key in any investment portfolio is to have your portfolio well diversified, but some portfolios I have seen in the past, held large exposure to this one fund, far beyond what made sense diversific

All eyes are on both the G20 and OPEC this week.

And while 82% of the worlds proven oil reserves are located in OPEC member states, the G20 summit will be more closely watched in a time where political risk has heightened.