We are pleased to welcome the newest member of the Herbert Scott Team – Jemma Williams. Jemma has taken on the role of Senior Adminstrator and will be working closely alongside our Operations Director, Jennie Snooks, to help provide clients with a top-quality service. Jemma gained her degree in Performing Arts in 2003 and has worked in various sectors including Market…
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Continuing our wish to support the local community, Herbert Scott recently sponsored an exhilarating evening in Lewes Town Hall with the East Sussex Community Choir. Haydn’s Creation – widely regarded as Joseph Haydn’s greatest masterpiece – uses dramatic musical storytelling to recount the creation of the world in seven days, using texts from the Book of Genesis, the psalms and…
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Meeting your financial goals, so you and your loved ones are free to live the lives you aspire to, requires high quality, ongoing financial planning and the construction and maintenance of a robust well-diversified, long-term investment strategy. It is the firm’s Investment Committee that is responsible for the ongoing governance of the latter. In most walks of life when you…
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Herbert Scott is proud to be supporting the East Sussex Community Choir’s latest performance, titled Haydn – The Creation. The event will take place at Lewes Town Hall on Saturday 29th June 2024 from 7.30pm and we have negotiated reduced-priced, £10, tickets for our clients. If you would like to purchase these, please contact the Herbert Scott office on…
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Every year the Herbert Scott team returns from our Christmas break knowing full well the next three months will be super busy. It can feel a little like a runner, preparing for a marathon. We need to start the New Year in peak condition, knowing that by the time we reach the last mile (for us the first week of…
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What better way to spend a rainy afternoon in February than in the company of Dimensional Fund Advisers, engaging in a journey through Herbert Scott’s investment philosophy. Whilst we realised this wasn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, we wanted to establish an annual event for clients who would like a deeper understanding of how we manage their money,…
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If you were a fly on the wall at Herbert Scott HQ, you would witness a financial planning firm buzzing with ideas on ways we can improve our services and add more value for our clients. The customer experience is central to everything we do. As a client of ours, you may already have a strong appreciation for who we…
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We fundamentally believe that a systematic approach to investing provides the best chance of experiencing a successful investing journey. Sticking to some key guiding principles – which are grounded in evidence and logic – gives investors a solid foundation on which to build a sensible investment solution. This short note provides an insight into five of our favourite insights from…
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Unfortunately, we now live in a world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’[1] where parties shamelessly push their own agenda at the cost of salient facts. In order to be heard in the noise of social media, research headlines need to be bigger and more eye-catching. For those investing using an evidence-based approach that means it is important…
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By and large, behavioral science suggests that human beings make lousy investors. Whilst we are excellent problem solvers, we suffer from a whole host of well-documented biases that, on average, erode the investment returns on offer from markets [1]. Being aware of our biases is a useful exercise if we are to limit the impact that…
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