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For over four decades, Courtiers has safeguarded clients’ wealth, delivering trust through our stewardship and the custodial partners we carefully select. Guiding your financial future is something Courtiers takes seriously, and our duty as a Financial Services organisation ensures we can uphold due diligence, implement robust business continuity and deliver client asset safety.

James Timpson, Head of Asset Management and Fund Manager, and Jake Reynolds, Asset Management Director, are back to run through the major investment moves that happened during the third quarter of 2025. We touch on funds, gold prices, the FTSE 100, ongoing geopolitical hurdles and the strongest returns we’ve seen across the period.

We’ve moved our holdings with Goldman Sachs to Federated Hermes. In our latest podcast, we ask Jacob Reynolds, Asset Management Director, Nigel Breakell, Fund Manager, and Kapil Divecha, Head of Private Clients, more about this change and what it means for clients.

Courtiers Chief Investment Officer, Gary Reynolds, delves into the evolving role of UK government bonds – particularly long-dated gilts – in modern portfolios in the first of our podcasts and in video format. Gary offers his knowledge at the intersection of macroeconomics, behavioural finance, and fixed income strategy, leading us through a discussion on debt, long-dated bonds and interest rates and how this affects Courtiers funds.

Should bond holders be worried that the UK Government’s debt has ballooned since 1997? Gary Reynolds, Courtiers Chief Investment Officer, is here to discuss whether debt to GDP has any relationship to bond pricing, and how government debt and household savings are two sides of the same coin.   

James Timpson (Head of Asset Management and Fund Manager) explains the main topics affecting investments last month, as well as how the UK’s GDP has grown, and some of the changes we’ve made to our funds