We therefore realised that we must take a far more active role in managing our own investments.

This means understanding why we are making any investment we make rather just simply basing it on ‘past performance’ which is widely used in the investment industry, yet is a very poor and misleading indicator of future performance.

This in turn means attempting to understand the big picture and the major investment trends, both up and down.

In order to do this successfully and help our clients take more control of their investments we have spent much time and money in finding out what some of the best investment minds in the business think about the big picture and also how they are investing their own money. We believe his methodology will lead to consistently higher returns for our clients than the normal ‘hope for the best’ approach, which is the hallmark of the ‘buy and hold’ camp.