November 20, 2024
This month’s Wealth Matters is filled with not to be missed insights focused on global political developments, hedge funds, local […]
November 19, 2024
What a way to end the season! Over the weekend, Team Racing Spirit ran riot at the final race day […]
October 31, 2024
This month’s Orion Investment Managers Optimum provides critical insights into international and local financial markets, together with vital updates on […]
October 28, 2024
This month’s Wealth Matters is filled with not to be missed insights focused on investor confidence, fund selection, what’s happening […]
October 21, 2024
This weekend, Racing Spirit proudly took part in Round 7 of the Power Series Event at Killarney Raceway, fielding three […]
October 10, 2024
Everton in the Community October 10, 2024 Everton Amputees have secured back-to-back IKO National Amputee Football League titles. The Blues […]
October 9, 2024
CADIZ BCI MONEY MARKET FUND The Cadiz Money Market Fund continues to deliver on its mandate by consistently providing returns […]
October 3, 2024
We have great pleasure in bringing to you the Spirit Foundation Full Circle publication. Please click on the link below […]
September 30, 2024
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Sporting Spirit! We are thrilled to introduce you to the vibrant sporting communities that […]
September 20, 2024
Investment diversification, crypto currency risk, global and local markets and fiduciary services updates; it’s all contained in this month’s Warwick […]
September 19, 2024
Where are inflation and interest rates heading globally? Why is there persistent market volatility? How are leading international economies performing? […]
September 16, 2024
Every month is Wills month with Appleton, and so in the September edition of the Appleton Times, we bring you […]
September 13, 2024
CADIZ BCI MONEY MARKET FUNDThe Cadiz Money Market Fund continues to deliver on its mandate by consistently providing returns that […]
September 11, 2024
Round 6 Western Cape Power Series Championship Weekend Report What a thrilling weekend it was for Racing Spirit at Round […]
July 12, 2024
An article by Ian Kilbride, published on 12 July 2024. I have the good fortune to have been in the UK for two transformative elections of the twenty first century. The first was in May 2010, which brought thirteen years of Labour Party rule to an end (though it required a Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition) and the even more transformative July 2024 election which swept Labour back into power under Sir Keir Starmer with an astonishing 412 seats, leaving it with a majority of 291 seats in the 650 seat Parliament. To place this in perspective, in 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to victory with 365 seats and an eighty-seat majority. Five years and three leaders later, the Tories sank to just 121 seats, the lowest number achieved by the western world’s most successful political party. It is widely accepted that Labour’s victory had as much to do with a groundswell of anti-Tory sentiment sweeping the country as much as it did with outright support for Keir Starmer’s changed Labour Party. Due to the peculiarities of the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) electoral system, the magnitude of Starmer’s victory is somewhat misleading. In terms of the […]
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July 4, 2024
An article by Ian Kilbride, published on 4 July 2024. US presidential debates don’t win elections, but they can lose them. President Biden lost his on 27 June 2024. The greater loser was the American voting public who were presented with the choice of an old man versus a conman running their country for the next four years. Since their introduction in 1960, the US presidential election debates have provided some memorable images and one-liners. Richard Nixon’s sweaty upper lip and uncomfortable shifty eyes while debating the eloquent, dapper and TV savvy John F Kennedy. Film star turned politician Ronald Reagan making fun of his own age and his “there you go again” put down to the hapless Jimmy Carter. And of course, Trump’s threat to Hilary Clinton that, “You’d be in prison” if he were President. But the June 27 Biden-Trump ‘debate’ was on an altogether different scale. The great British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes characterised life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”, for Biden the debate was all of these, though not short enough. In fact, it was 90 minutes too long. Through a combination of hubris and suicidal political bad judgment, Biden and his team initiated […]
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July 2, 2024
The Spirit Foundation has significantly increased its long-standing commitment to Everton in the Community and Everton Free School and Football College with a multi-year £2million funding partnership. The two new programmes of support will commence in July 2024 with the aim of creating a lasting impact for disadvantaged communities in Merseyside. The groundbreaking multi-year deal was confirmed recently when Spirit founder, philanthropist and Evertonian, Professor Ian Kilbride, attended one of Everton in the Community’s disability football sessions as well as visiting the Spirit Library at Everton Free School. The Spirit Foundation will now financially support the charity’s 14 disability teams and, in addition, will provide funding to Everton Free School to improve literacy levels, as well as supporting marginalised students in its Football College. A long-standing friend and supporter of both organisations, The Spirit Foundation was founded in 1994 and is a non-profit foundation established to give back and support education, communities and wildlife projects. A long-standing friend and supporter of both EitC and EFS organisations, the Spirit Foundation was founded in 1994 by the Kilbride family as a non-profit foundation to give back and support education, communities and wildlife projects. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Spirit Foundation has […]
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July 1, 2024
From The Government Of National Unity? An article published by Ian Kilbride on 1 July 2024. Buried within the small print of the Final – Final – Final GNU Statement of Intent is a short, bland, technical clause that commits the Government of National Unity to uphold the principle of evidence-based policy decision-making. Procedural, prosaic and barely noticeable, if applied to the letter, this clause is potentially the most revolutionary and meaningful for future governance in South Africa. While acknowledging the Constitution’s founding provisions, of equality, restorative justice, and the imperative of transformation, much government policy and decision-making has been shaped by ideology and captured by secular political interests, rather than informed by evidence. Of course, every government has an ideological bias and a self-interest to develop policy and make decisions favourable to its electoral constituency, but this need not be at variance with the best available evidence when formulating policy, or decision-making. While lacking any legal basis, clause 8.8 of the Statement of Intent binds all parties to the GNU to elevate evidence above ideology, or at the very least, ensuring that the facts are to be considered in policy and decision making. This is not a new principle […]
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November 20, 2024
This month’s Wealth Matters is filled with not to be missed insights focused on global political developments, hedge funds, local […]
November 19, 2024
What a way to end the season! Over the weekend, Team Racing Spirit ran riot at the final race day […]
October 31, 2024
This month’s Orion Investment Managers Optimum provides critical insights into international and local financial markets, together with vital updates on […]
October 28, 2024
This month’s Wealth Matters is filled with not to be missed insights focused on investor confidence, fund selection, what’s happening […]
October 21, 2024
This weekend, Racing Spirit proudly took part in Round 7 of the Power Series Event at Killarney Raceway, fielding three […]
October 10, 2024
Everton in the Community October 10, 2024 Everton Amputees have secured back-to-back IKO National Amputee Football League titles. The Blues […]
October 9, 2024
CADIZ BCI MONEY MARKET FUND The Cadiz Money Market Fund continues to deliver on its mandate by consistently providing returns […]
October 3, 2024
We have great pleasure in bringing to you the Spirit Foundation Full Circle publication. Please click on the link below […]
September 30, 2024
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Sporting Spirit! We are thrilled to introduce you to the vibrant sporting communities that […]
September 20, 2024
Investment diversification, crypto currency risk, global and local markets and fiduciary services updates; it’s all contained in this month’s Warwick […]
September 19, 2024
Where are inflation and interest rates heading globally? Why is there persistent market volatility? How are leading international economies performing? […]
September 16, 2024
Every month is Wills month with Appleton, and so in the September edition of the Appleton Times, we bring you […]
September 13, 2024
CADIZ BCI MONEY MARKET FUNDThe Cadiz Money Market Fund continues to deliver on its mandate by consistently providing returns that […]
September 11, 2024
Round 6 Western Cape Power Series Championship Weekend Report What a thrilling weekend it was for Racing Spirit at Round […]
July 12, 2024
An article by Ian Kilbride, published on 12 July 2024. I have the good fortune to have been in the UK for two transformative elections of the twenty first century. The first was in May 2010, which brought thirteen years of Labour Party rule to an end (though it required a Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition) and the even more transformative July 2024 election which swept Labour back into power under Sir Keir Starmer with an astonishing 412 seats, leaving it with a majority of 291 seats in the 650 seat Parliament. To place this in perspective, in 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to victory with 365 seats and an eighty-seat majority. Five years and three leaders later, the Tories sank to just 121 seats, the lowest number achieved by the western world’s most successful political party. It is widely accepted that Labour’s victory had as much to do with a groundswell of anti-Tory sentiment sweeping the country as much as it did with outright support for Keir Starmer’s changed Labour Party. Due to the peculiarities of the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) electoral system, the magnitude of Starmer’s victory is somewhat misleading. In terms of the […]
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July 4, 2024
An article by Ian Kilbride, published on 4 July 2024. US presidential debates don’t win elections, but they can lose them. President Biden lost his on 27 June 2024. The greater loser was the American voting public who were presented with the choice of an old man versus a conman running their country for the next four years. Since their introduction in 1960, the US presidential election debates have provided some memorable images and one-liners. Richard Nixon’s sweaty upper lip and uncomfortable shifty eyes while debating the eloquent, dapper and TV savvy John F Kennedy. Film star turned politician Ronald Reagan making fun of his own age and his “there you go again” put down to the hapless Jimmy Carter. And of course, Trump’s threat to Hilary Clinton that, “You’d be in prison” if he were President. But the June 27 Biden-Trump ‘debate’ was on an altogether different scale. The great British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes characterised life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”, for Biden the debate was all of these, though not short enough. In fact, it was 90 minutes too long. Through a combination of hubris and suicidal political bad judgment, Biden and his team initiated […]
The post Be Afraid, Very Afraid appeared first on Ian Kilbride.
July 2, 2024
The Spirit Foundation has significantly increased its long-standing commitment to Everton in the Community and Everton Free School and Football College with a multi-year £2million funding partnership. The two new programmes of support will commence in July 2024 with the aim of creating a lasting impact for disadvantaged communities in Merseyside. The groundbreaking multi-year deal was confirmed recently when Spirit founder, philanthropist and Evertonian, Professor Ian Kilbride, attended one of Everton in the Community’s disability football sessions as well as visiting the Spirit Library at Everton Free School. The Spirit Foundation will now financially support the charity’s 14 disability teams and, in addition, will provide funding to Everton Free School to improve literacy levels, as well as supporting marginalised students in its Football College. A long-standing friend and supporter of both organisations, The Spirit Foundation was founded in 1994 and is a non-profit foundation established to give back and support education, communities and wildlife projects. A long-standing friend and supporter of both EitC and EFS organisations, the Spirit Foundation was founded in 1994 by the Kilbride family as a non-profit foundation to give back and support education, communities and wildlife projects. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Spirit Foundation has […]
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July 1, 2024
From The Government Of National Unity? An article published by Ian Kilbride on 1 July 2024. Buried within the small print of the Final – Final – Final GNU Statement of Intent is a short, bland, technical clause that commits the Government of National Unity to uphold the principle of evidence-based policy decision-making. Procedural, prosaic and barely noticeable, if applied to the letter, this clause is potentially the most revolutionary and meaningful for future governance in South Africa. While acknowledging the Constitution’s founding provisions, of equality, restorative justice, and the imperative of transformation, much government policy and decision-making has been shaped by ideology and captured by secular political interests, rather than informed by evidence. Of course, every government has an ideological bias and a self-interest to develop policy and make decisions favourable to its electoral constituency, but this need not be at variance with the best available evidence when formulating policy, or decision-making. While lacking any legal basis, clause 8.8 of the Statement of Intent binds all parties to the GNU to elevate evidence above ideology, or at the very least, ensuring that the facts are to be considered in policy and decision making. This is not a new principle […]
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