We believe that your best outcomes will be achieved by efficiency. Building and maintaining your wealth depends not only on investment returns, but also on tax efficiency and by mitigating running costs, which create a drain on your returns.
This will usually require a tailored combination of deposit, investment and pension assets, together with recognition of property and business interests and their associated liabilities and debts. Because these areas are all subject to varying degrees of risk, we take great care to ensure that we understand and explain your attitude to risk and how this may affect your goals and objectives.
When investing, we believe that:
Markets work
- the prices of shares and other investments generally reflect the knowledge and expectations of all investors at all times
- there is little scope for any one investor to consistently “beat the markets” in the longer term.
Risk and reward
- higher risk investments will generally provide higher returns, are related but with greater volatility
- so our assessment of your risk tolerance will take into account your time horizons as well as your attitude to risk.
Diversification
- by establishing a blend of higher and lower risk investments, is essential the disadvantages of each are diluted while still providing exposure to their benefits.
Structure
- by holding your investments in the most tax- and cost-determines efficient ways, we are able to ensure that you retain as much performance of your return as possible.
We bind these principles together through our knowledge and experience to ensure that all recommendations and actions are focused entirely on helping you achieve your objectives.
