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A selection of articles and thought pieces from a range of contributors, including members of our central team and the Principals based in our locations. We’ll aim to publish new content on a regular basis and stick to topics that interest you, our readers.
23 May 2025
Same People – New Name!
We’re pleased to announce we are changing our name to Amber River DB Wood, with effect from 26 June 2025. DB Wood will still remain the registered legal regulated entity.
9 May 2025
April Performance Update
The start of April feels like a long time ago. We started the month with so called ‘Liberation…
25 April 2025
Walking a Tightrope
Whatever your view of Donald Trump, the chances are that the outcome of the Trade War will help…
4 April 2025
Market Review – Q1 2025
We came into 2025 cautiously optimistic. With high income yields, inflation sticky, though…
21 March 2025
Recession or no recession, that is the question…
They say a week is a long time in politics, but in the case of the new US administration, that…
21 February 2025
What’s all this ‘chatbot’ about then?
OpenAI started life in 2015 as a research organisation with a mission to migrate AI safely into…
7 February 2025
January Performance Update
Well, we’ve certainly had quieter starts to the year. In the first month of 2025 we’ve had…
24 January 2025
Tax charge ahead, is it time to change course?
It’s been a tough few months for the tax landscape. For many clients, 2025 will see a change of…
10 January 2025
Quarterly Investment Update
When we sat here a year ago writing this update, markets were expecting an imminent recession with…
23 December 2024
What a difference a year makes
2024 has definitely been a year of change. A new government, a new tax landscape, and thankfully, a…
29 November 2024
November Performance Update
We always felt that the last quarter of the year would be the trickiest, mainly due to the…
15 November 2024
Trump 2.0 – New regime, same rhetoric.
For investment markets the US election was always likely to be the biggest event of the year. It…
1 November 2024
Autumn Budget Update – Steps to fill the big black hole
At a simple level, budgets come down to the relationship between two numbers, firstly how much is…
18 October 2024
Budget Preview
“I had too much time to think” he said as he put the easiest forehand he’d had all day straight…
3 October 2024
Quarterly Investment Update
Just like the UK weather, a summer in investing can often be hit and miss. The phrase “sell in May,…
20 September 2024
Achieving Economic Viability
Our biggest passion at DB Wood is the journey of developing, growing and protecting the wealth of…
9 August 2024
August Investment Update
After a brief recess in August our blog schedule now starts back in earnest. Across the next 8…
25 July 2024
Summer update
Unbelievably we are halfway through summer, so before our August blog recess we thought it would be…
11 July 2024
Q2 Investment Update
Firstly, a big thanks to everyone who submitted questions. It has been a couple of years since the…
28 June 2024
UK Election – Things can only get wetter
This time next week the UK will know its political fate for the next five years, and glancing at…
14 June 2024
Question the Committee – Summer 2024 Edition
Firstly, a big thanks to everyone who submitted questions. It has been a couple of years since the…
31 May 2024
May Performance Update
The phrase “all-time highs” usually comes with some associated caution. It means a certain…
17 May 2024
Navigating the maze of student loans: A tale about debt and conundrums
If you decide University is the right option for you, (and that’s a key decision) I’m a firm…
3 May 2024
April Showers
Since the end of 2022 we have had a positive outlook on investment markets. That was the point of…
19 April 2024
An Intern’s View
Given the key to our business revolves around people, essentially our team and our clients, we are…
5 April 2024
Q1 Market Review ’24
We entered 2024 on the back of a strong last quarter of performance. Inflation all around the world…
15 March 2024
Spring Budget
Heading into this budget, there was an expectation that there would be tax breaks to drum up…
15 March 2024
Spring Budget ’24
Heading into this budget, there was an expectation that there would be tax breaks to drum up…
1 March 2024
February Performance Update
2023 closed with bond and equity markets moving notably higher on the back of falling inflation…
16 February 2024
The Year of the Election
This year will be the single largest election year in history. Across six continents more than 2.5…
2 February 2024
January Performance Update
The psychology of markets is not especially consistent. Investors get overly pessimistic when they…
19 January 2024
Will 2024 ‘Trump’ 2023?
As regular readers will know, last year was hard fought. A weighted average of our portfolio…
5 January 2024
Q4 Market Review
2022 was one of the most challenging years for investment returns in recent history. As so often…
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