Peter Botham is chief investment officer at Brown Shipley and has extensive investment knowledge. Xentum has invited Peter again to give us his update on the economic outlook. One of the corner-stones of the Maastricht Treaty was that there should be no cross subsidisation of member states. They all had to meet the required criteria [...]

After returning from a sunny Lake District to a rainy Cheshire last week, I was asked to present for the Chartered Institute of Insurance (CII) on Monday about my career in financial services to date. As one of the younger Chartered Financial Planners in my profession, I was delighted to help out and I hope [...]

Do you earn trust or is it a given until broken? A quick straw poll of our office gave a truly divided opinion. Personally, I’m in the first camp, whether it’s personal or within business, for me, trust with either a person or an organisation has to be built over a period of time. Though [...]

Last week, while roaming the Cheshire countryside I was getting sunburnt and now I’m standing in two inches of snow while an arctic snap embraces Perthshire where I’m spending a short break with my family. The only thing as unpredictable as the British weather is the economy, despite the UK interest rate being held at [...]

Xentum is expanding and is looking for IT savvy administration staff to work alongside its busy financial planning team. All record keeping and client portfolios are largely managed online so with this in mind we’re looking for someone who can grasp new procedures quickly and who possesses exceptional attention to detail. You will need to [...]

And the gong goes to Adele. What a shame all of the press is focusing on the famous finger directed at the BBC suits for cutting short her speech of thanks rather than her amazing achievement. Negativity has sadly become a typically Best Of British trait and I have every sympathy for Adele; this was [...]

Since announcing our alliance with capital and consolidation experts Succession, I attended our first annual conference for business owners at the beautiful Bovey Castle in Dartmoor. Now Xentum is one of 45 businesses who fall under the Succession umbrella, it was great to meet other business owners and hear first hand about some of the [...]

Well, after a well earned Christmas and New Year break I have returned to work with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and optimism for the year ahead. That’s why a piece I read earlier; ‘Go Figure; The great business confidence gap’, struck such a chord with me. Essentially, it was about how business leaders recognise [...]

As Louie Spence gesticulated wildly and shouted Oh No He Isnt and the baying crowd of five year olds retorted Oh Yes He Is and with the odd He’s Behind You thrown in for good panto measure, this was a world away from the woes of the global economy. However desperate times may be, there [...]

As Jessie J laments in her Price Tag hit, she may actually have a point. Which I know is a sentiment at odds with running a wealth management business, but there is a method in my madness. The world economy is in a precarious state and the priority for financial planners at the moment is [...]