2016 is history. Our sights are now set on 2017 and beyond, making sure we can manage both the known and potential risks and that our clients will be rewarded sufficiently for exposure to those risks. Overall, our view is cautiously optimistic and we will explain in more detail below.

As I am writing this review I fear that by the time you read it, it will be very much out of date, such is the pace of flow of information following the Brexit “surprise”. At this stage, it definitely seems more like political turmoil than real economic turmoil. If there is one thing I have learnt over my 17 years in the wealth management industry it is that when the market is scariest and when the newspapers are using the most sensationalist fearful headlines - that is the time to buy not sell.