The repercussions of coronavirus will be felt for years to come. For many customer-facing businesses it has been a ‘moment of truth’: an opportunity to deliver outstanding service despite the manifold challenges those companies face or, frankly, to fail. Nowhere have...
Activist investors are a bit like Marmite. If you’re a more passive investor in a stock where an activist is kicking up a stink and shaking down a company’s management you probably love them. If you’re the Board of the target company you may take a slightly less...
Albert Einstein famously said that “compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world: he who understands it earns it; he who doesn’t pays it”. Except he probably didn’t. This oft-cited quotation, beloved of financial advisers and wealth managers the world over,...
Climate change, plastic pollution, Covid-19, mass extinction, child labour, income inequality: it’s a grim list attracting increasingly universal attention. It is therefore unsurprising that there has been an exponential growth in interest in environmental, social and...
In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lord Darlington famously describes a cynic as “a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing”.I think this also serves as a description of the difference between a ‘trader’...
Welcome to The Garrulous Jay, a new weekly blog from George Shippam Financial Planning, which we hope you will find informative, educational and entertaining.The blog post takes its name from the bird featured in our new brand logo, about which more below.We welcome...
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