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Invitation:
Casterbridge Investment Briefing –
The Three Hurdles to 2021

Join us at the first virtual Casterbridge Investment Briefing – A quick fire investment seminar designed to bring you up to speed on all things investment! Members of the Casterbridge investment team will be running you through 2020 so far and how they have been managing Bespoke and Managed Portfolios for your clients. The team …

Invitation:
Casterbridge Investment Briefing –
The Three Hurdles to 2021
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Market Review July 2020

Will de Baer, Bespoke senior investment manager takes a look at the markets. What happened through July… July marked the first negative month for the FTSE 100 since March 2020. The markets lost momentum as the Covid-19 spread strengthened through the Americas and isolated spikes re-emerged in parts of the UK, Continental Europe and Australia. Through July a reality set in that a …

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Guide to ESG investing – Part 1: Does an ESG portfolio have to be riskier than a traditional portfolio?

As part of the three-year birthday celebrations for our Sustainable Impact Portfolio, we’ve created a three-part guide to Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) investing. The series looks at the key areas around ESG investing, including how new regulations are driving interest in the ESG arena, how advisers can meet clients’ ESG objectives, and much more. Jon …

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Market insights: A closer look and cash and equity weights

In our latest ‘Market insights’ video update Will de Baer, Investment Manager on the Casterbridge Wealth Bespoke Portfolio Service team, takes a closer look at portfolio positioning. Focusing on cash and equity weights Will illustrates how the team adjusted their asset allocation as they navigated through the Covid-19 market volatility of the last few months …

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Sector focus, where now for commercial property

Sector Focus: Where now for commercial property?

In this first of our ‘sector focus’ features Annie Borg, Research Analyst on the Casterbridge Research Team, answers some topical questions surrounding the commercial property market; why hold it in a portfolio? What does it offer investors? What are the liquidity risks? Commercial property – Where do we go from here? Well, despite finding funds that …

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Good Riddance Q1 2020!

Casterbridge Wealth Investment Manager Will de Baer gives us his latest thoughts and insights on how markets are behaving and how client portfolios are positioned… Good Riddance Q1 2020… Investors have made it through the first quarter of 2020, albeit bruised and battered by the Covid-19 market volatility. The market ‘Bears’ won that quarter’s battle, …

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Markets react to coronavirus concerns – Update from Will de Baer – 24.02.20

In light of today’s global market movements, Will de Baer has written the below comment to give you a little more information on the drivers behind the moves and portfolio level activity should you receive any client questions… Background to market moves… Global equity markets had mostly shrugged off geopolitical concerns with the US markets …

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