Year: 2022

  • Global House Prices are Falling

    Central Banks are raising interest rates. US mortgage rates have topped 7% for the first time since 2002, while rates in the EU and UK have more than doubled since last year.

  • The Christmas World Cup

    The Qatar tournament will, commercially at least, prove disappointing. Sponsorship revenue for the 2022 World Cup will come to an estimated $1.

  • The maturing emerging markets

    2022 has been a difficult year for Emerging Markets. Headwinds included a strong US dollar, global inflation, heightened geopolitical tensions, and growth weakness in China triggered by both COVID-related restrictions and a property market slowdown.

  • Prospects in a divided Brazil

    Brazilians reacted passionately to last weekend’s election win for Lula da Silva – or just ”Lula.” The supporters of the socialist candidate took to the streets across Latin America’s largest economy to celebrate with red flags and convoys of hooting cars.

  • Falling UK property prices

    The Wall Street Journal has reported that Britain “is about to sustain the biggest shock to its housing market” since 2008.

  • The Truss Revolution

    Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have spent weeks trying to convince the UK’s 160,000 Conservative Party Members that that they are a breath of fresh air, despite both having served in Boris Johnson’s government.

  • Faltering housing markets

    As interest rates rise, house prices in the world’s most overpriced markets are starting to fall. Will it be a slowdown, or a full-blown crash?

  • Will Singapore take Asia’s crown?

    China’s state news agency, Xinhua, recently reported that “since Hong Kong’s return to the motherland in 1997, its financial market has evolved... with remarkable progress made in the banking system, capital market, as well as the foreign exchange market.

  • Could oil prices have passed their peak?

    Whilst investors are assuming that energy prices will stay high, history may suggest the opposite.

  • The UK’s Healthy Recession

    Like in much of the World, the UK’s economy looks in trouble right now. We have  seen two consecutive months of falling output, and there is no reason to expect that trend to be reversed any time soon.

  • The World’s cooling property market

    House prices worldwide have been pushed up by low interest rates. With rates rising, the market may well cool.

  • The end of easy money

    The world’s central bankers are starting to see sense. Minutes from the March meeting of America’s Federal Reserve show that policymakers plan to shrink the Fed’s $9trn balance sheet faster than anticipated in response to soaring inflation.

  • Globalisation in retreat

    A growing number of big investors, including BlackRock and Allianz Global Investors, have gone public with predictions that the war in Ukraine will prove an inflection point in the global economy.

  • A Blow for ‘net zero’

    Switching the world economy from fossil fuels to green alternatives was always going to be a challenged. It just got a lot harder.

  • China’s economic miracle : drawing to an end

    There is no painless way for Beijing to deflate the debt bubble.

  • UK house prices in 2022

    2021 was a boom year for lots of things, and one of those things was the UK housing market.

  • Markets respond to Ukraine’s invasion  

    The tragic human cost of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces has lead to widespread international condemnation.

  • A year to forget in emerging markets

    Last year was one to forget for investors in most emerging markets (EMs).

  • China’s worrying attitude to international relations

    There are three key risks for investors in Xi’s China.

  • China’s key risks for investors

    There are three key risks for investors in Xi’s China. The first major risk is that the country is running out of time for reform.

Articles from 2025

  • Rediscovering Japan
  • Not so Tarriffic change
  • Deposits and returns
  • Africa’s century?
  • A not-so-foreign policy
  • The Trump effect

Articles from 2024

  • Trump’s wake-up call for Europe
  • The Comeback Kid
  • Can a collapse in Lebanon be avoided?
  • Love Labour’s Lost?
  • The Great Race Reset
  • More oil on troubled waters
  • US and UK Diverge
  • India’s National Renewal
  • Egypt’s collapse
  • Globalisation is not over yet
  • Japan is back in fashion
  • Red Sea crisis will lead to price rises
  • Inflated concerns
  • Dubai’s growth continues apace
  • How long can Russia’s boom continue?
  • Poland : Under new management

Articles from 2023

  • China’s decade of buying influence
  • Global property prices falling
  • War in Middle East
  • Too early to celebrate
  • Britain must pivot towards Asia
  • Time to buy emerging markets
  • The failing state of South Africa
  • Growth in Greece
  • Chinese stocks’ going cheap
  • Could the UK’s downbeat property market now be stabilising?
  • The Rocky Road of Inflation
  • The changing face of globalisation
  • Growth boost for Britain
  • Who gets squeezed by inflation?
  • 2022 : the year of the interest rate shock

Articles from 2022

  • Global House Prices are Falling
  • The Christmas World Cup
  • The maturing emerging markets
  • Prospects in a divided Brazil
  • Falling UK property prices
  • The Truss Revolution
  • Faltering housing markets
  • Will Singapore take Asia’s crown?
  • Could oil prices have passed their peak?
  • The UK’s Healthy Recession
  • The World’s cooling property market
  • The end of easy money
  • Globalisation in retreat
  • A Blow for ‘net zero’
  • China’s economic miracle : drawing to an end
  • UK house prices in 2022
  • Markets respond to Ukraine’s invasion  
  • A year to forget in emerging markets
  • China’s worrying attitude to international relations
  • China’s key risks for investors

Articles from 2021

  • Xi’s China is a risk to investors
  • Global Property Bubble
  • Buy British
  • Hong Kong’s faltering reputation
  • Lebanon’s collapse
  • Global Property prices are soaring
  • Crisis in Tunisia
  • China’s Communists turn 100
  • Taxing Big Tech
  • Commercial property values at risk
  • The UK’s Recovery
  • The UK House Price Boom
  • UK House prices booming
  • Chinese markets fall
  • The risks of vaccine nationalism
  • Rishi’s Recovery budget
  • UK welcomes HongKong Nationals
  • The Great Crash of 2021?
  • The Arab Spring : Ten Years on

Articles from 2020

  • Is Britain’s house-price boom set to continue?
  • The Dollar’s on the slide
  • World’s debt balloons
  • A global property boom
  • Oil prices stalling
  • London property remains over-valued
  • South Africa faces storm
  • Recession in Turkey
  • China leads global recovery whilst tensions escalate
  • A sunny retirement
  • Hong Kong’s new normal
  • UK House Prices falling
  • Reset for the recovery
  • Inflation will return
  • Stocks stumbling
  • No-deal Brexit looms again
  • Britain’s housing market may avoid a crash
  • New Hong Kong security laws lead to falling currency
  • India’s collapsing economy
  • Hong Kong’s struggle continues
  • Oil Prices plunging over global GDP shock
  • Market Update : 23rd April 2020
  • The housing market’s deep freeze
  • Pandemic fears continue to panic markets
  • Is Hong Kong becoming a ‘failed state?’
  • What Brexit means for your money
  • Growth in self-employed makes taxation taxing
  • Will China’s virus outbreak damage the economy?
  • Britain’s innovators should keep their tax breaks

Articles from 2019

  • Time to buy Britain
  • UK Election looms
  • Hong Kong protests are an urgent warning to Beijing
  • Preparing for Trump’s re-election
  • Turkey’s stocks : undoubtedly cheap
  • Labour’s tax plans need attention
  • UK property becoming more affordable
  • Brexit Breakthrough?
  • Portugal : A Euro Success Story facing political challenge
  • Oil price surge after Saudi oil facilities attacked
  • China toughening out trade tensions
  • UK Election looms as no-deal Brexit blocked for now
  • Beware pitfalls in buying overseas property
  • Hong Kong’s perfect storm
  • US/China trade truce?
  • Emerging markets bouncing back
  • Citizenship for sale
  • Not just football that’s coming home
  • Recovery in Greece?
  • Whisky galore
  • Russia’s recovery is boosting region
  • ‘Slowbalisation’ of global property
  • The UK economy is having a run of success.. despite the political mess.
  • India’s PM heading for May victory
  • ‘Golden visa’ residency schemes under the spotlight
  • US downturn on the horizon?
  • A380 – Another European prestige project fails
  • Optimism in Brazil
  • The Euro’s 20th birthday
  • Investing in Indonesia
  • Emerging Europe comes of age
  • Oil slide boosting growth
  • Global property prices easing

Articles from 2018

  • Politics, interest rates and trade wars
  • Invest for Brexit – whatever the outcome
  • US mid-term: Democrat House, Republican Senate
  • Egypt’s President is creating enemies
  • An end to the bull market?
  • Turkey’s crisis could have huge repercussions
  • No deal, no pension?
  • Change brings opportunity in the Gulf
  • Build-to-Rent investors are snapping up London flats
  • Things are getting ugly in Turkey…
  • Middle East becoming a new region in the investment landscape
  • Brexit is heating up
  • Merkel on the brink?
  • UK house prices continue to slow, whilst London continues to fall
  • US interest rates move higher
  • Great news on Greece
  • European shares slump over continuing political upheaval in Italy
  • An oil rich nation, with no oil
  • Bread, Freedom, Dignity in Tunisia
  • Which global cities have the highest living costs?
  • Agreement on path to Brexit
  • What’s ailing the UK property market?
  • China’s return to dictatorship
  • Year of the Dog starts with a rollercoaster
  • Italy heads to the polls
  • Technology is speeding up growth in Africa
  • Oil bulls are about to be disappointed
  • Market volatility surging
  • China braced for a slowdown
  • UK growth better than expected in 2017
  • Iran’s uprising gathers pace
  • UK House prices to remain subdued in 2018

Articles from 2017

  • Catalonia Heading to the polls
  • Sufficient process takes Brexit to the next step
  • Prospering post-Brexit
  • How will European instability affect Brexit?
  • Tourism is proving an exciting investment opportunity
  • Tensions rising in Middle East
  • Interest rates to rise
  • Qatar’s blockade hurts its enforcers
  • Deal or no Deal?
  • Spain’s Day of Unity
  • Global real estate is in a bubble
  • Qatar : No resolution in sight
  • Where next for Sterling?
  • UK property grows 2.1% over last year
  • Turkey : looking eastward?
  • Venezuela : Tensions Reach New Highs
  • UK/US Trade Deal : A big opportunity
  • Crisis in Gulf deepens
  • UK house prices continue to fall
  • Greece needs a crisis
  • Egypt : visitors needed
  • Greece’s debt saga grinds on
  • Le Pen and Macron in French run off
  • Here we go again
  • Pound’s Strength withstanding Brexit
  • Bottlenecks in Bangladesh
  • London’s luxury property market is suffering
  • Article 50 to be triggered on 29th March
  • Europe successfully shrugs off political risk
  • Is renting in London loosing its appeal?
  • Power struggle is risking Morocco’s economic growth
  • Another Greece crisis looms…
  • Le Pen sets out her ‘commitments’ as France prepares to vote
  • Expatriates warned to avoid portfolio bonds
  • No need for a bust up in UK/EU talks
  • ‘Buy to Let’ challenges in 2017
  • Is the UK stock market surge about to slow?  
  • Will 2017 bring another European crisis?

Articles from 2016

  • What does 2017 have in store?
  • Italy triggers next Euro-zone crisis
  • Uncertainty high in France
  • It’s Trump!
  • Winners and losers in Sterling’s fall
  • Did Portugal’s bailout work?
  • Israel’s cost of living problem
  • Brazil’s Olympian returns
  • Oil glut drives prices lower again
  • Interest rates down – and further cuts lie ahead
  • Italy’s failing banks worry Euro-zone
  • India’s dampened growth
  • Spain after Brexit
  • US shrugs off Brexit
  • Buy To Let’s worrying outlook
  • Life after Brexit
  • Two days to go : UK decides on its European future
  • It’s got to be summer : France is on strike.
  • Greece braced for more austerity
  • Germany’s economic mirage
  • London property price fall
  • Portugal : Beyond austerity
  • Brexit : Official campaign launched
  • Myanmar’s stock market : open for business
  • An oil price recovery?
  • Deflation makes Japan a buy
  • London’s falling property market
  • India’s auspicious outlook
  • UK’s banks are suffering
  • Brexit campaign launched
  • Oil price plunge damaging government finances
  • Japan: a buying opportunity
  • An Egyptian Anniversary
  • Oil prices: lower for longer
  • A volatile start to 2016

Articles from 2015

  • Burma’s time in the sun
  • Think twice before investing in UK property
  • Thailand’s Government gets pro-active
  • Pressures in Europe re-emerge
  • Clouds gather over Turkey
  • Property Bubbles emerging
  • UK visa scheme under the spotlight
  • Asia’s fortunes rising
  • Japan : Bouncing back
  • China falls again
  • Growth forecast in UK property
  • A Greek adventure
  • Africa’s emerging middle class
  • London property prices on the slide?
  • China’s Fall
  • Oil prices remain low
  • Eid Mubarak
  • The Russian recovery
  • Return of the PIGS
  • Brazil : under new management
  • Greece: a good investment for the brave?
  • Still no deal in Greece
  • How can a country boost its GDP by 25%?
  • A tough year for Russia
  • Italy’s brighter future
  • Chinese equities : Crash looming?
  • The latest on Greece
  • Japan’s bull market to continue
  • Time to buy broken Brazil?
  • Crucial countdown to Nigeria’s election
  • Bangladesh’s broken politics
  • China : Trapped between strong yuan and high debt
  • Morocco’s growth prospects
  • Passports for sale
  • The Greek dilemna
  • Fast growth does not equal strong stock market performance
  • The Polish power house

Articles from 2014

  • Greek economy faces ‘irreparable’ damage
  • Argentina has been relegated
  • Is a Chinese soft-landing possible?
  • Romania heads to the polls
  • Radical change in Mexico
  • A boost for gold
  • Europe’s triple dip recession
  • Paralysis in Paris
  • Australia’s downturn
  • Italian woes
  • A jewel in the emerging market crown
  • Indonesian election results due
  • Won rising….
  • World Cup Party in Brazil ?
  • A new Cold War ?
  • Europe : Power moving East
  • India’s election results
  • The Bangladesh transformation
  • Is the Euro crisis really over?
  • International residents make record UK tax contribution
  • The Manila Growth Story
  • Is Japan changing?
  • UK pensions are getting interesting
  • UK Investor Visa shake up
  • Qatar is being promoted!
  • Will Russia buck the rout in emerging markets?
  • China slowdown
  • Turkey : sliding out of control?
  • What’s in store for 2014?
  • Totally UK
  • The falling price of an EU passport

Articles from 2013

  • Is a Grexit still likely?
  • Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Extended To Non-UK Residents Owning UK Residential Property
  • Knightsbridge Wealth visits Portugal
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