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8th November 2024

Presidents Change, Markets Remain

Another four years have flown by, and here we are again, on the morning of the 60th U.S. presidential election. The U.S. president is often considered one of the world’s…
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31st October 2024

Autumn 2024: Budget Round-Up

National Insurance  On an employer level (class 1 NIs) the rate will increase from 13.8% to 15% from 6th April 2025. This will apply on employee earnings above £5,000 (rather…
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25th October 2024

Setting Sensible Expectations for Investment Returns

"Man has the hardest job of all, the job of making decisions on incomplete data." Henry Kuttner When market returns are kind, as they have been in recent times, it…
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11th October 2024

The Golden Illusion

By its very nature, the investing industry is full of differing views on how one ought to invest their hard-earned cash. One of the more polarising debates is whether an…
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30th September 2024

The Importance of Rebalancing

Rebalancing is the practice of realigning the components of a portfolio of investments back to a target allocation from which it has drifted away. Naturally, the process is a contrarian…
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4th September 2024

Investing is Simple, but Not Easy

It is a simple statement that the decision to invest in the first place provides an opportunity to protect hard earned savings from inflation, and perhaps grow further. It is…
Emily Keenan
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19th August 2024

In Investing, Time is Your Friend

One of the great challenges that all investors face is that there is no easy or quick way to investment success. Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare is…
Emily Keenan
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23rd July 2024

The Big Bond Bounce – Back (For Some)

Most investors would probably like to forget the poor performance of both bonds and equities in 2022 and early 2023.  For many investors it was their first real experience of…
Emily Keenan
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17th June 2024

Graduate Financial Planning Analyst

As one of Northern Ireland’s leading Financial Advisory Firms, Pacem is a boutique practice which offers a unique Financial Planning & Accountancy Business Advisory service. As a company we are…
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17th June 2024

Politics and Portfolios

It feels like 2024 is the year of the election with over 64 happening in various countries around the world covering around 50% of the world’s population!  These range from…
Emily Keenan
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28th March 2024

Financial Advisory Summer Internship

As one of Northern Ireland’s leading Financial Advisory Firms, Pacem is a boutique practice which offers a unique Financial Planning & Accountancy Business Advisory service. As a company we are…
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InsightsNewsUncategorised
9th January 2024

2024 – Looking Backwards and Forwards

Over the longer term, investors expect a positive, after inflation return from investing in company shares and lending money to governments and companies by owning bonds.  Unfortunately – and inescapably…
Emily Keenan
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18th December 2023

A Tribute to the Wisdom of Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger, the lifetime business partner of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, passed away in late November at the ripe old age of 99.  He was a deep thinker about…
Emily Keenan
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26th October 2023

Investment impact of the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East

Everyone has been touched by the horrific events and unfolding human tragedy in Israel and the Gaza Strip, and many are concerned by how this might escalate into a wider…
Emily Keenan
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17th August 2023

Pacem Supports ‘Brewing Ideas & Crafting a Business’

Pacem is delighted to continue it’s efforts in supporting early-stage businesses and entrepreneurs by partnering with Belfast City Council & Innovation Factory on the upcoming ‘Brewing Ideas & Crafting a…
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22nd June 2023

Winners Crowned at Belfast Business Idea Award 2023

A busy mum of three has been crowned this year’s Belfast Business Idea winner for her innovative range of plastic-free hair and skincare products for children. Sarah McKegney pitched her…
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26th May 2023

Marketing, Communications and Events Executive

As one of Northern Ireland’s leading Financial Advisory Firms, Pacem is a boutique practice which offers a unique Financial Planning & Accountancy Business Advisory service. As a company we are…
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InsightsNewsUncategorised
19th May 2023

Just a few stocks drive market returns

It is sometimes easy to forget that when markets rise and fall, we are looking at this through an aggregated, market-capitalisation weighted lens.  In reality, the fortunes of individual companies…
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18th May 2023

Supporting Innovation: Pacem Backing the 2023 Belfast Business Idea Award

Pacem is delighted to, once again, support the Belfast Business Idea Award 2023. The Idea Award, supported by Belfast City Council, Danske Bank, Pacem, Open University and Innovation Factory, differs…
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1st May 2023

Don’t just take our word for it!

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…
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13th April 2023

FAKE NEWS!! Active outperforms passive!!

Unfortunately we now live in a world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ where parties shamelessly push their own agenda at the cost of salient facts.  In order to be…
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30th March 2023

Anchors Aweigh

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…
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24th March 2023

Planning Analyst / Senior Planning Analyst (Dependent on Experience)

As one of Northern Ireland’s leading Financial Advisory Firms, Pacem is a boutique practice which offers a unique Financial Planning & Accountancy Business Advisory service. As a company we are…
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15th March 2023

Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank’s demise

The spectacular work ‘Another Place’ by the British sculptor Antony Gormley, of one hundred naked men scattered along 1.5 miles of Crosby Beach in Liverpool, provides a useful twice-daily reminder…
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16th February 2023

Missing the best days in the market

Most investors – at some time – will be either tempted to time when to be in or out of equity markets – or wish they had when markets fall. …
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2nd February 2023

The error of reacting to market falls

Being an investor is never easy because, as humans, we tend to live in the moment responding to our emotions, the environment around us and the circumstances we find ourselves…
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2nd January 2023

2023 – Looking backwards and forwards

At the start of 2022 investors needed reminding that investing is not an easy game, despite having enjoyed around a decade of relatively strong – and fairly consistent - market…
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15th December 2022

Value Worth Waiting For

Sensible investing is about taking on sensible risks in your portfolio, which starts with owning equities over cash.  Historical data and logic tell us to expect a premium for doing…
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9th December 2022

Pacem Shortlisted for 3 Eastside Awards!

Pacem is delighted to announce that we have have been shortlisted in three categories for the 2022 Eastside Awards. The Eastside Awards exist to showcase the best in East Belfast…
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29th November 2022

30 Climate Leaders Under 30 Created for Northern Ireland

A cohort of 30 people under the age of 30 has been convened to lead the local response of the younger generation to the climate emergency. In the first of…
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3rd November 2022

In Defence of Democracies, Markets & the Media

Three prime ministers and three chancellors in as many months, certainly feels chaotic, possibly a bit embarrassing, as well as a little depressing.  There is no doubt that the UK…
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18th October 2022

Pacem Supports Prestigious International ‘30 Under 30’ Personal Development Programme for NI Climate Change Makers

Are you under 30 and passionate about the environment? Calling the class of 22/23! – young eco leaders sought for prestigious international ‘30 Under 30’ personal development programme – A…
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29th September 2022

An upside-down view of currencies and interest rates

Whatever your politics, one has to feel a bit of sympathy (maybe) for the new Chancellor. It has been a very tough first week in a new job; lambasted by…
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17th June 2022

Pacem Double-Winners at the 2022 Eastside Awards

The much anticipated Eastside Awards, in association with George Best Belfast City Airport, celebrating all that is good about East Belfast, returned in 2022 with a glittering awards ceremony hosted…
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10th June 2022

Tips for unsettling times

The news today can feel a little bit unsettling.  There is no doubt that these are tough emotional times for investors.  Russia’s invasion and brutal war in Ukraine is unsettling…
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7th May 2022

Winners Crowned at Belfast Business Idea Award 2022

Belfast-based entrepreneurs gathered at the Belfast Business Idea Award finalists’ night on Friday May 6 at Danske Bank to hear this year’s winners announced. A Belfast City Council initiative, supported…
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20th April 2022

Digital assets and blockchain technology

Blockchains, Web3, the metaverse, NFTs, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, dApps and DAOs. These terms have surged into mainstream media, from nowhere over a decade ago. At time of writing the total…
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14th April 2022

Pacem Support Belfast Business Idea Award 2022

Pacem is delighted to, once again, support the Belfast Business Idea Award 2022. The Idea Award, supported by Belfast City Council, Danske Bank, Pacem, Enterprise NI and Innovation Factory, differs…
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11th April 2022

Bonds – no pain, no gain

For the past 40 years or so, bond investors have, in a sense, been spoiled by an almost continuous fall in yields from over 14% in the 1980s, which –…
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5th April 2022

Spare Room to Stellar: The Lusso Tan Story

Pacem is delighted to continue its support of an initiative entitled 'Spare Room to Stellar', alongside Belfast City Council and Danske Bank. Spare room to stellar is designed to inspire…
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25th March 2022

The Ups and Downs of Spring Statement 2022

National Insurance Contributions (NICs) Despite lobbying to delay the upcoming 1.25% increase in NICs payable by employees, employers and the self-employed, the government has decided to go ahead as planned…
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11th March 2022

Bonds – between a rock and a hard place

Sometimes as an investor we come face to face with a stark reality.  Today, that is the case with the bonds held in portfolios. By and large, most long-term investors…
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4th March 2022

Spare Room to Stellar: The OutsideIn Story

Pacem is delighted to continue its support of an initiative entitled 'Spare Room to Stellar', alongside Belfast City Council and Danske Bank. Spare room to stellar is designed to inspire…
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25th February 2022

Uncertainty abounds – it always does

Today, it certainly feels like the world is in a very uncertain place.  Authoritarian states are flexing their muscles, with Russia violating Ukraine’s sovereignty and China’s ongoing subjugation of Hong…
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25th January 2022

Unpacking Inflation

Inflation measures the general increase in the price of goods and services. Left unchecked, it can be a dangerous foe to the long-term investor, eroding the purchasing power of one’s…
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10th December 2021

Pacem Raise Vital Funds for Survivors of Suicide

Pacem is delighted to announce that a total of £4786.50 was handed over to Survivors of Suicide Support Group as a result of the team fundraising effort for the Belfast…
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7th December 2021

FOMO may be bad for your wealth

It feels at the moment that the markets have gone a little mad.  Almost everything you hear on the news or read about investing suggests that everything is going up. …
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18th November 2021

Bond Basics

We associate the term ‘bond’ with mutual connection, whether the subject is chemistry (between atoms, ions, or molecules), personal relationships (between human beings), or finance (between borrowers and lenders). The…
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7th October 2021

If, and, then, but…

For those readers interested in financial news (some might call it noise), the unfolding story of Chinese property developer Evergrande (a name which is ironic given its dire financial position)…
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7th September 2021

Retirement Rule 1

Don’t run out of money Of all the financial challenges and concerns that we face over our lifetimes, avoiding running out of money in retirement probably sits at the top…
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