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Asset Management – Swimming in an Ocean of Treacle

2022 has been a challenging market, and its likely to reveal to millions of savers just how poorly their money is managed. Its time to have some serious discussions about asset management and how to focus on serving clients, rather than them as big businesses!

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Leverage, Liquidity and Volatility – the three pale riders of value destruction

“Leverage, Liquidity and Volatility upturn markets, triggered by policy mistakes, ignorance, hubris or plain getting it wrong. These are dangerous times as multiple issues threaten confusion – so some simple market mantras might help!”

Leverage, Liquidity, Market Insights, Telsa, Volatility
Bill Blain
October 18, 2022
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A series of unpredictable things that might or might not happen in 2022!

Occasionally the Morning Porridge strikes a lucky insight on markets – this morning here are some thoughts on how 2022 markets and events may or may not develop. If they occur I shall hail myself an investment genius. If not, can we quietly forget them?

2022 Predictions and Outlook, ARK and Bitcoin, VSI - Tesla
Bill Blain
January 14, 2022
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Investment Guidelines for the Zeitgeist Market

The outlook for the UK looks rosier as pubs reopen, vaccinations beat targets, and the economy grows. But, how should investors be looking at markets when financial assets already look overpriced, and there are clear bubble risks ahead? It’s a matter of staying calm, reading the runes and understanding the markets new mindset!

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Act Big, Think Careful

Blain’s Morning Porridge – Feb 17 2020 – Act Big, Think Careful “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”…

Bill Blain
February 17, 2021

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Party On!

Blain’s Morning Porridge – Feb 16th 2020 – Party On! Don’t get angry, read my lips, we’ve all got, new…

Bill Blain
February 16, 2021

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Tech, Luck and Megatrends

Blain’s Morning Porridge – 12 Feb 2021: Tech, luck and Megatrends “Games are won by players focused on the playing…

Bill Blain
February 12, 2021

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Blain’s Morning Porridge, Dec 18 2020: Jingle Bell Rock

Blain’s Morning Porridge, Dec 18 2020: – Jingle Bell Rock “How do you spell Chanukah?” This is my final appeal to…

Bill Blain
December 18, 2020

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Blain’s Morning Porridge – 15 June 2020 – Hard Hats at the Ready?

Blain’s Morning Porridge – June 15th 2020 – Hard hats? “I’m not ready for Monday – I’m going back to…

Bill Blain
June 15, 2020

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Blain’s Morning Porridge – 27 May 2020: The Power of Headology

Blain’s Morning Porridge – 27th May 2020 – Time to Learn Headology “Mumbled words and weird drawings in old books…

Bill Blain
May 27, 2020

Buy Gold to fund Bottom Fishing!
January 26, 2023
Gold – can’t eat it, can’t use it, but its everything crypto never was: tangible, exchangeable, a store of value, and a kitty for when things get tough. In uncertain markets…. Don’t forget the yellow stuff.Read More »
Trains: An Open Letter to Paul Holmes, MP (Conservative)
January 24, 2023
I have worked in finance for nearly 40 years. I have withstood phycotic managers, overcome multiple business hurdles, survived a major health scare and triumphed as a small firm guy against big vested interests.. but I am pretty sure it will British Railways that will put me in a box. This morning a rant:Read More »
Don’t worry about the UK – I’ve got an idea…
January 23, 2023
Gosh… The Rest of the World wonders how the UK has suddenly become a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. The optics are terrible. Even the Russians are moving out! Fortunately, there may be a solution: let’s be British about it, and show everyone we can do political knavery better than anyone else!Read More »
Forget inflation – its interest rates that will set markets and drive new growth.
January 20, 2023
Around the globe everyone thinks inflation is beaten. It may well be, but the consequences will persist. Interest rates may not “pivot” the way market optimists hope, with profound implications for equities and bonds. We are into a new market cycle of normalised rates and corporate fundamentals. All-in-all, that’s a good thing for growth!Read More »
CoCos and AT1 – cheap or still dangerous?
January 19, 2023
Banks are as safe as houses, till the moment they aren’t. Investment banks think the AT1 hybrid capital market looks cheap on the basis higher rates are good for banks. Rising defaults.. not so much. Bank hybrid capital is a complex area and not for the faint-hearted or ill-informed.Read More »