What is the reality behind the headlines?

This week we have made a conscious effort to buck the media's trend for negative headlines and warnings of the dangers ahead.

While it is impossible to ignore the current global economic woes and the massive overhang from the eurozone debt crisis, we wanted to try and reflect some of the positive news stories trickling out from fund managers and wealth managers in recent weeks. Good news has never been more welcome as a painful rise in the CPI inflation rate to 5.2% made the evening news headlines for all the wrong reasons. This increase meant the inflation rate now equals the previous highest on record in September 2008, prompting further unwelcome comparisons of the current climate with that of the financial...