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Stuart Thomson
Chief Economist, Co-Fund Manager
Stuart joined Ignis Asset Management in August 2006 where he is responsible for International Bonds and Currencies.
Investment Experience: 27 years
Stuart joined Ignis Asset Management in 2006 with responsibilities for international bonds as well as becoming Chief Economist. Before joining Ignis, Stuart held a number of senior economist and market strategist positions including spells at Nikko Europe, Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Agricole Indosuez, RIA and Charles Stanley Sutherlands. He began his career at Britannia Asset Management in 1985. Stuart graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA (Hons) in Economics and is a CFA Charterholder.
Articles by Stuart
- Francois Hollande – Rouge for Danger
- The Fed and the lukewarm gruel of growth
- The French presidential election – a point of inflexion for European politics?
- Fixed Income debate replay – Chris Bowie and Stuart Thomson provide their views on the sector
- Would you invest in the proposed 100 year gilt?
- Budget preview – the big squeeze and the little squeeze
- Bank Deploys Operation Crunch
- Central Banker of the Year – Anointing the King
- Bright Light for PIIGS is the Match Sparking the Barbecue
- The First Horseman – The White Horse: Conquest – US Banks VS Economics
- Introduction to Chaos Theory
- Dr Pepper’s Guide to 2012 – What’s the Worst that Can Happen? – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- 2012: Jeux Sans Frontiers – Markets With Tears
- OBR not OBN, but still VILE
- Santa Claus Doesn’t Exist and Neither Does Unlimited ECB QE
- Italy is Just the Tip of the Debt Iceberg
- Fed Policy from Fingers Crossed Idaho
- Fund Me or I will Shoot – Greece Puts a Gun to its Head
- Politicians Trying to Sell PIIGS in a Poke
- MPC Launches QE2 with a Twist and Shout
- Twists on the lost decade highway
- What have we learnt since 9.15?
- Money for Nothing and Your Toblerone for Free
- US Economy on the Edge, but Policy Stops Lemmings
- Bernanke in a Jackson Hole, He Should Stop Digging
- Many Unhappy Returns – Europe Turns Thirties
- UK QE – are we there yet? No, but soon…
- Won’t Get Fooled Again – Pension Deficits Double Dip
- S&P Choose Debt over Democracy in a Pale Imitation of the Thirties
- Stop Chasing Rainbows – This is as Good as It Gets for the UK
- The Muppet Show in Washington
- Cyprus – Worse than Ireland with Sun
- The Mood(y’s) in Spain Spells Pain
- As Cunning (and as Useful) as a Fox With Two Tails – But Not a Solution
- Blackadder 5 – Baldrick’s Cunning Plans for Greece
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Beware of Greeks Bearing Defaults
- Inflation Reaches Trafalgar – MPC Turns Blind Eye to Temporary Prices
- Everything will be Okay, Just Keep Consuming and other Myths
- Italy Needs a Hospice Rather than the Peripheral Hospital
- The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Complacent
- No More Stall and Prevaricate for US Fiscal Policy but Beware Churchill’s Warnings
- Misery Loves Company not Gestures: Three Wishes for 23 March Budget
- No Windmills for Don Quixote De Threadneedle Street
- A Few Good Men at the MPC
- Egypt – It’s Too Early to Tell
- Old Lady to Play Lady Madonna with a Touch of Maradona
- 2011 Outlook – May You Live in A VILE Decade
- ECB walks into an Irish Bubble and Starts a Fight
- G20: Inspector Clouseau Takes Charge
- Is there a financial asset bubble? – The simple answer is no, bonds are still attractive
- CSR – Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the British Way
- October Themes – QE: To Infinity and Beyond
- Ireland Needs Massive Dose of Goodwill (or EU Money) to Balance Books
- UK Pension Funds under Pressure – Do They Feel Lucky?
- Plan B is the Bank and Balls to Sterling
- Ignis Rates August Themes Meeting – Conclusions
- The Bank fears fear in ‘Land of Hope and Gory’
- The Fed spends its pocket money
- Fed QE or not QE; If it’s worth doing; It’s worth doing well and very, very large
- The Real Stress Test Shows It Is the End of the Beginning for Sovereign Debt Crisis
- What to watch out for over the hot summer nights of July and August
- 1932 or 2002; Is Uncle Ben Nervous or Afraid?
- Budget Summary: Osborne chooses pearls before SWINE
- OBR Wins OBN
- June 22nd; Emergency Stop for Fiscal Profligacy and the Economy
- The Dawning of the Age of Austerity
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- The Greek Donkey Derby and the EU makes an Ass of Itself
- US Recovery has the Wright Stuff, but Only the Wright Bros Stuff
- Germany, EU and the IMF Play Pass the Pigs
- Send in the Piranhas; Budgets, Elections and the State of the Economy
- The Damned United Kingdom: Voters will decide the Shape of the Next Recession
- Greece; Keystone Cops to the Rescue
- February Inflation Report – MPC River of Blood Leaves Economists in African River
- Harsh Lessons; Why Central Banks View 3 R’s as a Risk Learning Experience
- Harsh Lessons; Why Central Banks View 3 R’s as a Risk Learning Experience
- MPC kittens skating on thin ice, but determined to end QE
- Barracking the Banks – But Darling, Do We Need Another Hoover?
- MPC Willing to “Sentance” UK to Deflation to Avoid Temporary Inflation
- Employment for Silk Purses and Sows’ Ears
- What’s the worst that can happen? – Dr Pepper’s Guide to 2010
- 2010 Economic Outlook – Good intentions likely to be blown away
- PBR: As much use as celery
- Poor Darling’s Posh Budget Report determined to hang Britain
- Those who live by liquidity are condemned to die by the withdrawal of liquidity
- Big bad wolf still supping at the punch bowl
- Asset Price Bubbles Join Orwell’s Animal Farm
- Central Banks’ Stare at the Dark Side of the Moon
- Lies, damn lies and Newport numpties
- Narrow banks, narrow bankers and even narrower politicians
- The most plausibly optimistic forecast – or the love that kills
- Brown Giveth and Taketh BOE Credibility as Politics Rears its Ugly Head
- Good Vs Evil; Fundamentals and Liquidity
- The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible
- Competitive devaluation – gifted amateurs need not apply
- G20 provides Speedos for all
- Don’t worry, be happy – but speed bumps lie ahead
- Only business until consumers show business
- It’s the level, stupid!
- Obama Hoovers up the applause
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- Absolute Return Government Bond Fund – 1st Anniversary Timeline
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