There has been a lot of talk recently of poor deposit rates offer by domestic banks, long gone are the days when bank deposit rates fell well above the inflation rate and individuals could sit back and watch their money grow. In the present climate the art of beating inflation and maintaining the purchasing power […]

Over the past week I have received a few queries from clients in relation to the ‘Government Shut-down’ over in the US. Individual investors didn’t know the consequences that this shut-down could have on the US economy itself and also the implications across the world. I have tried to summarize exactly what is going and […]