UK rent inflation is beginning to ease. Over the past 12 months, rents increased by 3.9%, marking the slowest annual growth since August 2021. While rents remain high, the pace of increase has tempered significantly compared to the staggering 12% annual growth seen at its peak in 2022. UK Rent Trends For Landlords The average … Read more
The Money Game by Adam Smith (George Goodman) is one of my favorite investment books of all-time. The book was originally published in 1968, but it’s still more than relevant for investors today because it’s a study of behavior and human nature on Wall Street. Human nature is the one constant across all market environments. The … Read more
The U.S. government put the clamps on a notorious underground market for stolen personal information. The Department of Justice said it arrested three people and seized the domain of Rydox, a dark market site that traded in the personal details of thousands of individuals. “The Rydox marketplace was a one-stop shop where upwards of 18,000 … Read more
“How much can I spend in retirement?” is perhaps the most fundamental question a client brings to their advisor. Answering it well requires a range of assumptions – from estimating average investment returns to understanding correlations across asset classes. These assumptions are rooted in Capital Market Assumptions (CMAs), which project how different assets might perform … Read more
As the Atlantic hurricane season drew to its close, the overall yield of the catastrophe bond market continued its typical seasonal declining trend, albeit at a slightly slower pace as there were also supply-demand factors evident in the market, but still by the end of November 2024, the cat bond market yield stood at a … Read more