Expert Views

It’s that wretched rhyme again
Tuesday 13 May 2008
So – should we “sell in May and go away, and not come back until St Leger Day”?
He huffed and he puffed and he.....sent a repossession order!
Thursday 08 May 2008
As a first time home-owner, I am nothing if not tired of picking up my daily newspaper only to be repeatedly bombarded with truly terrifying headlines concerning house prices.
Maybe not just a passing problem? Inflation
Monday 28 Apr 2008
Damn statistics and damn politicians don’t blend well together.
Too Good To Be True?
Wednesday 23 Apr 2008
“Jobs figures bring welcome relief” was the leading headline – but in my view not so much relief as astonishment. Last week’s unemployment figures for the UK were heralded as the lowest for thirty years at 5.1% (down 0.1%) with even the numbers claiming jobseekers’ allowance declining.
Please Sir, Can I have some more?
Monday 14 Apr 2008
What do Chinese pork, Indian rice, Australian wheat and U.S. corn have in common? Unfortunately right now, a great deal!
Is this the world’s biggest hedge fund?
Monday 07 Apr 2008
What do you call a hedge fund with a government? Probably Iceland.
Breaking down some barriers
Tuesday 01 Apr 2008
If volatile markets do one thing, at least they make people think more about what is happening to their money
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Wednesday 26 Mar 2008
If Mark Twain were alive today uttering these now famous words, I wonder just how amused he would be with how we have become subservient to a plethora of numbers.
Going to “L” in a hand cart
Monday 17 Mar 2008
“Well what shape is it?” has been one of the most recent questions I have been faced with. “Is it going to be a V or U shaped recovery, or maybe a long bath shape?”
Somewhere over Sumatra
Monday 10 Mar 2008
Singapore I regard as my second home – tidier, warmer and generally better organised than West London.
Sunshine and Roses
Thursday 06 Mar 2008
Here at the headquarters of Seven Investment Management, we in the investment management team are renowned for our rather pessimistic economic views and are affectionately called the ‘doom and gloom corner’.
European Outlook
Monday 03 Mar 2008
Times have become uncertain. The pound is beginning to wane and the US markets seem to be slipping into hibernation.
The Refined Art of Rock Knocking
Monday 25 Feb 2008
Oh what a chorus of half baked ill informed wingers.
“There will be blood”
Monday 18 Feb 2008
What an apt title – this recently released film about an early rapacious American oil magnate has provided a most pertinent title for some comments this week.