INSIGHT

SORBUS spotlight: How long will the recession last?

Economists are very bad at spotting recessions in advance. The Treasury publishes a monthly roundup of independent forecasts going all the way back to 1985. The really striking thing when looking back over it is that consensus forecasts failed to spot the recessions of 2020, 2008 or 1990 until months after they had already begun.

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SORBUS spotlight: China. A five-chart story.

Rocketing inflation, soaring interest rates, war in Europe and British political turbulence (to put it mildly) have grabbed investors and analysts’ attention in 2022. However, in world-historical terms, the collapse in Chinese growth is the big news.

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Top stock pick – WealthBriefing

As investors face increasingly volatile markets, high inflation rates and geopolitical tensions, Richard Farmiloe, fund manager of SORBUS VECTOR highlights his top stock pick for WealthBriefing.

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SORBUS spotlight: pulled in two directions

In an ideal world fiscal and monetary would work to support each other. Sadly the world is often far from ideal but rarely has there been a divergence as sharp as the one currently being experienced in Britain.

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Next Gen: Scott Garratley, SORBUS Partners

SORBUS investment manager, Scott Garratley is featured as this week’s CItywire Next Gen star. He discusses his best investments to date, what drove him to wealth management, and what mild superpower he would choose.

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SORBUS spotlight: two types of global inflation

For months Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, has warned that Britain is walking ‘a narrow path’ between the risks of ongoing high inflation and the chance of a recession. The Bank, in its latest forecasts, has now accepted that the most likely outcome is for the country to experience both: unpleasantly high inflation and a nasty recession.

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