Global Market Commentary – June 2025
2025 is proving to be a case study for those who believe time in the market is more important than timing the market.
2025 is proving to be a case study for those who believe time in the market is more important than timing the market.
We are delighted to announce that Daniel Bullen, Matthew Brown and Toby Douglas have recently completed their qualifications to become Independent Financial Advisers.
We are delighted to announce that Joseph Findlay and Matthew Taylor have been appointed as Partners with effect from 1 June 2025.
2025 has been a very noisy year so far. Important news has come thick and fast, be it related to trade tariffs, defence spending, artificial intelligence or other themes.
April 2025 was a historic month for stock markets, which declined rapidly upon President Trump’s announcement of huge international trade tariffs, then rose almost as quickly when he reined back on them.
Our Spring newsletter focusses on the implications from the Chancellors Autumn budget and looks at the changes to Tax from April 2025. We also highlight our Tax Investigation Protection Service. In addition to shining a spotlight on our Apprentices, we find out more about our two new Associates and say, 'arrivederci' to two long serving member of the Team here in Berwick.
Changes to Employee Protection under the Worker Protection Act 2023
The meaning of the Italian word Arrivederci is ‘goodbye, until we meet again’. Since Greaves West & Ayre opened our doors in 1918 we have said goodbye to some long standing members of the team. We started 2025 by saying a fond farewell to two key members of GWA -
Derek Simpson and Brian Tait
Spotlight on -
Changes to Tax from April 2025
Check out what's coming up in the next few months...
Each year we support National Apprenticeship Week #NAW2025 that takes place in February. As part of this, we caught up with Richard Ayre and Roseanne Bennett, both Partners and training leads at Greaves West & Ayre.