Chadwicks Insight
Sharing things we have found interesting, surprising or that simply make life better
As a learning organisation we are keen to share our knowledge - and anything else that we've enjoyed.
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6 October 2025
Baking a Bigger Cake
Zero-sum thinking isn’t just a bias; it’s shaped by lived experience. When jobs are scarce and resources limited, it can feel like someone else’s gain is your loss.
1 September 2025
Death and Taxes
For years, pensions have offered a valuable shield from IHT and have played a key role in estate planning. Often, they were preserved until last and used to pass wealth down the generations. That is changing...
2 July 2025
Do less, do better
As we enter the second half of 2025, it’s striking how much noise surrounded the market decline and how little attention the recovery has received. Economists widely agree the trade tariffs caused needless uncertainty but no lasting economic benefit. Our focus on long-term investing keeps us from reacting hastily to such events. History shows markets rise over time and declines are temporary. Sharp falls and swift recoveries are common and can be missed by those who check their investments only occasionally. This can help investors stay calm and avoid unnecessary anxiety.
19 May 2025
Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes
Lenin famously observed ‘there are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen’. It feels a little like that here at the moment. While I wouldn’t claim we’re going through a revolution, many of the elements of the evolution we’ve been steadily stewarding over much of the last decade have combined to create what feels like a pivotal moment.
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15 July 2024
How Top 100 IFA Chadwicks uses passive equities to beat inflation
This article appeared in New Model Adviser in July 2024
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20 December 2020
The long-term drivers of return in financial markets and economies
In this Research Note James Bacon and Lee Nguyen explore the factors driving growth and the implications for our investment process
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1 October 2019
Fifty shades of green: the world of sustainable investment
Investment Analyst Radostina Dencheva contributed an article on the future of socially responsible investments to the recently launched publication, 'Visions of a Sustainable Future.' (2019). This collection of thought pieces form a multidisciplinary perspective on the key challenges and transformations facing us all in ensuring a sustainable future.
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4 September 2019
Libby Toms: My Month at Chadwicks
We enjoy having young people working with us to gain experience of work in the 'real' world. Some are here for a week, some for longer. Libby spent a month with us over the summer and here are her reflections.
27 February 2019
A World of Milk
Content Consultants, are committed to developing a full understanding of their target audience as the first step towards building the perfect solutions for their needs. As such, they conducted focus groups with women to learn more about what was preventing Mexican women from breastfeeding. The women told them that advertisements had convinced them that formula milk is better than their breastmilk. What a topsy turvy world!
5 December 2018
Ormiston Families MPower Project
During 2018 we've been supporting Ormiston Families' MPower project that supports parents who have had a child taken into care. The Mpower project has made a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable women who are largely forgotten in society. The grief and loss they suffer on top of the other challenges they face in their lives is hard to bear.
5 November 2018
A hut at night? Shepherd's delight!
For those fond of glamping, the answer can be delivered to your doorstep in the shape of an English Shepherd Hut, and you don’t have to tend a herd of sheep to get one. The huts combine the timeless traditional charm of a historic hut with countless modern innovations to make them both beautiful and functional.
18 October 2018
The Funding Conundrum
For our May 2018 Insight Masterclass we were delighted to be joined by Nick Harding. We have worked with Nick for over twenty years and watched him build a series of successful businesses, starting with a management buy-out of a division of Rank in 1996.
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2025 Autumn Statement
3 December 2025
With the UK’s fiscal landscape under pressure, it’s widely expected that tax rises are on the horizon. In this session, we’ll unpack the key changes to taxation and explore what they could mean for the wider economy and investment outlook.