As regular readers of this Blog will now be familiar, your author is constantly seeking new ways in which to learn more about the future. To this end, he spent an hour recently on a guided tour around Selfridges, one of London’s largest department stores. However, this was no shopping trip. The venue (which our […]

In case you missed it, yesterday marked Swiss National Day, commemorating the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy. Say Switzerland to most people and they might naturally think of mountains, chocolate and cheese. However, beyond this bucolic and culinary backdrop, the Swiss also have a deserved reputation for being hard-working and innovative. Amidst the celebrations of […]

Opinions expressed whether in general or in both on the performance of individual investments and in a wider economic context represent the views of the contributor at the time of preparation.  View from the very top: focus on solutions rather than problems. Investor sentiment is poor as the world grapples with high inflation and slowing […]