S&W The Pulse

In this episode we discuss these very unusual market conditions and trying to provide some insight into what might happen from here.

In this episode, we analyse and comment on the recently announced 2020 Budget, identifying the key changes and outlining the practical implications for you and your business.

In this episode we discuss how the Coronavirus may delay the global economic recovery, but not derail it.

Trade tensions have been replaced with investors’ concerns about the potential economic implications from the Coronavirus outbreak that originated from China. Global consumption is likely to be affected somewhat by travel restrictions to and from China. Given the expected downturn in Chinese economic activity from a government enforced lockdown on parts of the country, Mainland import demand is also likely to be a drag on global growth. Macro data downside for the first few months of the year can be expected and especially so in Asia. Market uncertainty will not be helped by Coronavirus cases being detected outside China in places like Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy.

We’ve got you covered on all aspects of an individual’s financial life cycle in this series. Covering; education, lifetime allowance, wealth transfer, property and retirement. In this episode we discuss the importance of tax planning.

In this episode, co-founder Joel Hopwood of award-winning retail marketing agency; Shopper Media Group, talks to Nick Travis on how the niche concept came about with business partner, Matt Lee. Joel reveals how the business was built with only just a grand in the bank, as well as challenges faced along the way - equipping them with a healthy amount of resilience.

In this episode, we discuss the important of insurance cover in the world of sports. Matt Dewen, Director from Full-Time Cover insurance, covers all bases from; insurance for individual players from motor to career ending, as well as clubs and associations.

In this episode we will be discussing the geopolitical risks from the Middle East.

2020 started out with a bit of volatility coming from the Middle East. We had the US assassinate major general Qasem Soleimani, he was the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Baghdad Airport. The Iranians they responded with some missile strikes at the US but this was really calibrated to appease some of their anti-us sentiment at home. The end result was that there was no US casualties of sorts, so at least there was no knee-jerk reaction by the Iranians on some sort of oil fields or energy facilities. If that had happened then we would see a spike in the ore Price, but that did not happen. So although the we had this strike it didn't have any sort of lasting impact.

Our sports and media podcast series hosted by Peter Fairchild our tax partner and head of our sports, media and entertainment group and Ed Duah, former football player and now football adviser, will provide you with information on various topics that will affect sports and media professionals in all stages of their career, including Insurance, image rights, legal matters, tax liability, wealth planning, and preparing for life after sport or entertainment.

In this episode we will be discussing the year just gone, the labour manifesto and Chinese growth.

Since the futures market expects the Fed to cut interest rates just once in 2020, investors will be looking at company earnings and dividends to sustain the equity rally. On the positive side, after a sharp slowdown in global manufacturing activity in 2019, there are tentative signs of stabilisation.

According to the Resolution Foundation, the Labour party manifesto envisages government spending (day-to- day and capital investment) of 45% of GDP by 2023/24, up from 40% currently, and would be the largest expenditure (excluding the Global Financial Crisis in 2008) by any government since the mid-1970s.

China’s latest round of monthly macro statistics have been greeted with some gloom. Certainly, on the surface, the data appears disappointing. While industrial production grew +4.7% in October from a year ago and retail sales expanded by +7.2%, both data points were below consensus expectations. For many, this has been taken as a sign of China’s ongoing weakness.

In this episode we will be talking about property related issues for non-residences. In addition we will also provide a roundup of recent tax changes, this time covering: Tax proposals in political party manifestos and the Higgins v HMRC case.