2020 YTD return: ISACO 4.3% FTSE 100 1.0%,

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Jan 15, 2020 @ 11:24 AM


On January 9th 2019, we posted a blog with the title, ‘Attention ISA and SIPP Investors! A new bull market may have just begun.’ I can proudly say that we were right on the money because for the year we returned a very respectable 16.5% compared to the FTSE 100’s 12.1%, beating our benchmark by 4.4%.

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Tags: Shadow Investment

Attention ISA and SIPP Investors! A new bull market may have just begun

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Jan 09, 2019 @ 09:08 AM

In our Daily Market Update on Tuesday January 8th 2019, we wrote:

‘Here’s what we noticed that was good and not so good.

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Valuable information for ISA and SIPP Investors: Our latest thoughts

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Thu, Oct 25, 2018 @ 03:46 PM

We think the bull market that started February 2016 is over. As most investors are aware, the behaviour of the global markets since October 4th have been brutal. Over that period, we’ve seen the NASDAQ Composite plunge 11.4% (Point A). Knowing what we now know, we believe that the correction on the NASDAQ Composite that begun late January and finished early June was what’s known as a late stage faulty base.

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Attention ISA and SIPP Investors: What our current market analysis is telling us

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Tue, Jul 03, 2018 @ 10:55 AM

After analysing the market on Thursday June 28th 2018, we said…

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Attention ISA and SIPP investors! How to beat the FTSE 100 by 3.3% per year

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Mar 07, 2018 @ 01:00 PM

The FTSE 100, our benchmark, has annualised 6.2% since its inception 34 years ago1. That tells us that if we can beat the FTSE 100 over the long term, we’re going to be blessed with a reasonable rate of return.

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Tags: ISA investing tips, SIPP investing tips

Great news for ISA and SIPP Investors - stock market’s next leg up may have just begun

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Sat, May 06, 2017 @ 01:00 PM

It has been a while since we posted our last blog and so we felt it fitting to get you up to speed with our latest thoughts on the market.

Let’s begin with looking at what we were saying in our Daily Market Update on Thursday April 27th 2017. In that update we said…

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Tags: Investment outlook

For ISA and SIPP investors: How we made 11.3% in 3 weeks

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Mon, Mar 07, 2016 @ 06:30 PM

The market's recent behaviour is bullish and the rebound so far has been powerful. For example, we’ve made a robust 11.3% return over the last three weeks1.

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A blog for advisers only: Neil’s story

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Feb 24, 2016 @ 12:30 PM

ISACO Alpha

We first ran this article July 22nd 2015 and because it proved so popular amongst the adviser community, we thought it would be a good idea to run it again. Enjoy!

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For ISA and SIPP investors: Where will the stockmarket head next?

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Mon, Feb 08, 2016 @ 12:30 PM

The good news is that markets appear to have bottomed out – recently experiencing ‘multiple’ follow throughs – an indicator we use to help confirm a change of trend from down to up.

This information is taken from The Big Picture, to download a sample copy please just click here.

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A golden investment opportunity for ISA & SIPP investors

Posted by Stephen Sutherland on Wed, Jan 27, 2016 @ 12:30 PM

In this series of posts we're looking at how investors can capitalise on the investment opportunity that the next 5-10 years could offer. 

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