Harvest News

Current Topics in Markets Another month and another round of interest rate rises, and so far financial markets are taking it all in their stride. Inflation is very much heading in the right direction in the US and is generally expecte…

This month’s fund in focus is the ICG Enterprise Trust. ICG is a listed private equity investment trust whose objective is to generate long term value growth through investment in unquoted companies. The fund invests via specialist vehi…

Current Topics in Markets The return of optimism to financial markets was evident across most asset classes in the first half of this year. Inflation concerns settled back somewhat, the interest rate peak was supposedly in sight and t…

Redundancy payments and Pension Lump sums In a Redundancy situation a key concern for the employee is often the interaction between their redundancy payment and their accumulated pension benefits from that employment. In general, a…

Current Topics in Markets The biggest concern overhanging markets in recent weeks has been the threat of the debt ceiling being breached and the risk of a ‘default’ by US on its interest payments.  As a result the news that Biden…