Adam Norris

2 months ago | moneymarketing.co.uk | Adam Norris |Tom Browne |Mark Dampier |Greg Moss

There’s no respite for government bond investors – it’s been a tumultuous few years. Headlines on Labour’s tax-and-spend agenda and the UK’s lack of growth abound. We explore why the UK government is having to pay such a premium when accessing the debt markets and where these reverberations are being felt the most. The first six months of 2024 seemed contrary to the UK politics psychodrama of the previous eighteen months.

Sep 19, 2024 | moneymarketing.co.uk | Adam Norris |Momodou Musa Touray

If accolades were based on economic growth, the 21st century would belong to China. It entered the new millennium with an economy smaller than Italy’s but, fast-forward a couple of decades, it now adds the equivalent of an economy the size of Italy’s to its growth every other year. On a humanitarian level, China’s success story has been nothing short of remarkable, too. It has lifted almost all its population out of extreme poverty – a figure that stood at close to 50% in 1999.

Mar 14, 2024 | moneymarketing.co.uk | Adam Norris |Dan Cooper |Tarnia Elsworth |Adam Norris

A favourite bedtime story for my son is Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The larvae eats its way through many fruits and sugary treats day by day, before blooming into a beautiful butterfly. Given my son’s tendency to eat everything placed in front of him, I sometimes wonder if the story’s words are in fact a memoir of his day. This theme of sluggish growth before gorging its way to beauty is also somewhat reminiscent of the current UK equity market.