Lisa Doig, director of IFA RobMac, is passionate about more young people choosing a career in finance. In fact, she says that she wished that she had considered it sooner in her own career. Lisa Doig director at RobMac “We know that ever since the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in 2012, the number of … Continue reading “Finance Careers – Lisa takes it to the school”
Jeff Lewis, director of IFA RobMac, provides some more thoughts on the investment market in light of the progress against the COVID global pandemic. Jeff Lewis, director at RobMac Is this really the beginning of end, and what does it mean for financial markets? The number of new COVID cases globally has fallen by … Continue reading “Investment Commentary – Has the tide now finally turned in the war against the virus?”
Sometimes the planets align for no apparent reason but that seems to be happening right now at RobMac. We published an article recently about what makes RobMac different which looked at the “behaviour gap”. It seemed to strike a chord with people and we received some very positive feedback about how it helped to … Continue reading “When the future looks a bit uncertain – get some professional advice”
Lisa Doig, director of IFA RobMac shares the successes seen during Lockdown through the use of telephone and virtual meetings as the company continues to keep in touch with its clients and prospects. It seems an age ago since we closed our West end office at the start of the pandemic. We quickly implemented … Continue reading “Coping in a Crisis – Lockdown Success Stories”
At RobMac we receive a lot of enquiries about socially responsible investments and whether we are able to prepare appropriate portfolios either on a standard or tailored basis. These types of investment are sometimes referred to as environmental, social and governance issues or ESG for short. In order to do this, we will usually have … Continue reading “Socially Responsible Investing – ESG and Impact Investing”
RobMac’s own Stewart Hagart and keen rugby player with the Stewart’s Melville FPs was part of the weekend’s fundraising team for the charity Hearts & Balls. The charity was set up in 1999 to help support the players and families as a result of catastrophic injury. The challenge on the longest day was … Continue reading “Hearts & Balls Charity raises over £4500”
Andrew Hannay of RobMac answers some questions on the crisis and gives an insight on working at home and how this has changed our business lives and daily routine. What changes did you make at the outset? “Initially it was news filtering through from London that offices were beginning to close and staff being … Continue reading “Managing in a Crisis”
In a recent article by Mark Lofthouse of Mortgage Brain, he remarked that the numbers of deals being done last week was up 11% from the low of week beginning April 13, however is still way off the highs of post Lockdown. That said, those lenders that have remained active over the last few months … Continue reading “Signs that the Mortgage Market is in Recovery”
In this 5 minute video, Jeff Lewis looks at the impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on financial markets, the way that we work and hopes for the future. I hope this article is of some interest to everyone. If so and you would like to discuss your financial position further then please get … Continue reading “Jeff Lewis gives a financial review as a result of the coronavirus pandemic”
It was a bit of a surprise when RobMac signed up to support the Maclean brothers on the Talisker Whisky Transatlantic Challenge that they would both set so many records and get so much publicity. RobMac caught up with them to see how they were getting on. Ewan Maclean started by saying that he and … Continue reading “Update from Broar – the Maclean brothers incredible transatlantic row”
