Insights

Articles and reflections

We like to keep things simple and straightforward. But the world is complex and requires thoughtful reflection.

Since 1987, the firm has published occasional articles each year on topics of general investment interest. We continue to share our thoughts and insights here.

Please note that the views expressed in these articles and videos reflect the view of their author at the time of publication and should not be regarded as advice or an offer or solicitation to conduct investment business.

31st May 2022
Responsible investing

Time for a better way of assessing corporate behaviour

Most big public companies profess a keen concern to justify “green” credentials. But we urgently require a more coherent means of testing the reality of corporate commitment to the cause. This piece suggests such a …

1st October 2020
Responsible investing

We need refreshment for tired hearts

When it comes to refreshment of the mind and emotional release, the creative and performing arts play a vital role. Their value is underestimated.

Deprived of audiences and normal sources of income, the arts need …

1st May 2018
Responsible investing

Conflicts of interest

Conflicts of interests have ever nourished the ground of human frailty. But the resulting damage has mounted over recent years. Contrasts can be drawn with standards of probity evident in the early 20th century. Improvement …

23rd May 2005
Responsible investing

Contrast in investment styles

Despite pundits’ gloomy projections at the start of 2004, the year turned out well for equity market investors. Both the UK and US indices had risen appreciably from the depths they reached in 2003 after …

1st February 1999
Responsible investing

Taking pride in work

Sport was one area where the founders of the firm fell out. One, a thoroughly modern man, a realist, harboured no Arcadian dreams about what once was known as the ‘amateur’ ethos: the other, a …

1st September 1995
Responsible investing

Corporate greed

Despite glorious weather throughout the summer of 1995, the public mood had been soured by dark resentment. Executive pay at British Gas had become a lightning rod for malcontents, but a wider underlying concern centred …

12th August 1992
Responsible investing

Growth in a ‘New Age’

By the Spring of 1992, concerns were being aired at meetings of the G7 and other international forums, about the flattening out of economic growth rates and the possibility of renewed recession. Growth in the …

10th April 1992
Responsible investing

New priorities

Rather against the odds, John Major had been re-elected at the April 1992 general election. The opposition leader, Neil Kinnock, for all his success in modernising Labour Party policy, had been perceived as shallow and …

1st November 1990
Responsible investing

Protecting loveliness

1990 was the base year of calculation under the Kyoto Protocol for monitoring progress towards the agreed target emission reductions, country by country. As early as 1988, Mrs Thatcher had noted in a seminal speech …

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