Seasons Greetings

Don’t worry, I’m not one of those who stretches Christmas out over 2 months. Less “‘Tis the season to be jolly” this blog is more “‘Tis the season to make money”. In my last blog I revisited seasonality, explaining that more of our financial returns occur over the northern hemisphere winter period versus over the summer period. Team that up with year three of a presidential cycle usually bringing the best returns out of the four and we stop battling a headwind and enter a period with a tailwind.

Rebalance

As you can see we rebalanced yesterday and put some of our cash to use. Interest rates in the UK rose by 0.25% recently which will no doubt filter through to our cash held on platform soon, but we believe we can now do better than just a cash return over the coming months. Some defensive shares (not defence industry) have been let go or reduced, some on our long term watchlist have been added and some of our past and current star performers have been increased.

This rebalance reflects 4 geo-political changes that have occurred since the Spring series of equity sales.

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