Estate Capital

09/10/2026

We are proud to announce for the second year running we have made the Top 50 Boutique Financial Advisers

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/ft-adviser-top-50-boutique-firm-2026/

31/10/2024

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/autumn-budget-update-key-news-chancellors-statement/

The chancellor has delivered the Labour government’s first Autumn Budget. Here’s a useful summary of the key measures Rachel Reeves announced in her statement

23/11/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/inflation-expected-progress-towards-2-europe-usa/

The governments of the developed world are being held back by the crushing responsibility of repaying huge debt piles at elevated interest rates. This debt has been accelerated in the past 15 years through the buying out of banks in the financial crisis of 2008/9 and the recovery cost of the Covid p...

23/11/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/earliest-date-fed-rate-cut-may-will-prompt-change-asset-returns/

GDP growth in the US continued to surprise on the upside while inflation maintained its steady decline. The resilience of consumers in both the US and UK has meant that the ECB, Fed, and BoE have been cautious about their rate outlook and reinforced the stance of ‘higher for longer.’

14/06/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/strong-value-bias-past-18-months-starting-swing-back-growth/

Equity markets started 2023 with a recovery in tech stocks pushing US equities to the best January performance in 20 years. Stocks were lifted by positive sentiment over the opening of China and economic activity that appeared to reduce the chances of a recession. February saw these expectations fal...

05/06/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/boe-not-control-inflation-recession-will-occur-anyway/

Headline CPI inflation fell from 10.1% in March to 8.7% in April, but this fall was less than the BoE had expected. Meanwhile the figures for core inflation which exclude the currently expensive heating and food costs which are considered imported inflation, showed a monthly rise from 6.2% to 6.8% p...

05/06/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/european-equities-rallied-strongly-recent-months/

We are now over 12 months on from the commodity price jumps that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Due to this there was a big drop in European headline inflation from 8.5% to 6.9% in March. European inflation has lagged US inflation but eventually pushed above US inflation due to firstly, th...

04/06/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/japan-wanted-inflation-wage-growth-within-economy-decades/

The corporate governance reforms first introduced by former Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe are starting to see progress in the Japanese stock market. Sadly, Mr Abe who was Japan’s longest serving Prime Minister till he stood down on health grounds in 2020 will not see the success of his hard-f...

31/05/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/can-boe-get-forecasting-wrong/

The Bank of England followed the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank in raising its base interest rate by 0.25% to 4.5%. While it appears, the Fed is pausing its interest rate hiking cycle, the BoE and ECB could still have some work to do.

30/05/2023

https://www.estatecapital.co.uk/blog/inflation-expected-fall-coming-months/

In the week that Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, admitted he was no longer relying on the Bank’s inflation models, we received another surprise with April’s inflation release. Despite a 1.4 percentage point fall in year-on-year inflation compared to March, headline CPI surprised ...