Trains, Taxis and a Stress Free Visit to London

To continue the 'investment theme' of this issue, last week saw Graeme and I off to London to attend an investment seminar/workshop.

The host was Dimensional Fund Advisors, one of the fund companies that we use within our investment portfolios.

We travelled down by train on the Tuesday afternoon and this gave me the chance to catch up on some work reading.

Why are there so many trade journals?

I know many clients receive a similar number. I need someone to read them on my behalf and then provide me with a 'digest' of the key issues. Now there's an outsourcing idea…

Once we'd booked into the hotel we met up with 2 ex-colleagues (who had travelled down from Leeds) at O'Neills bar on the Euston Road.

After a couple of beers we found an Italian type restaurant which seemed to be full of Mexican staff.

Still haven't worked that one out.

But the food was great (tagliatelle with meat balls) and then we finished up in the bar around  the corner.

The next day we arrived at the Park Lane Sheraton in time for bacon butties, which was just as well as our Travelodge (we do it in style) didn't exactly offer breakfast.

A quick mention for our taxi driver - next time I get in your car will you be able to reset the meter instead of it starting at £4.20 + £3 extras.

Thanks.

Park Lane Sheraton 

I was really impressed with the hotel. The staff were very attentive and the lunch was pretty impressive.

The day went really well and we had the pleasure of listening to speakers from the US and Australia.

Delegates had also flown in from Brussels and Vienna.

The sessions included (I know you're dying to know):

- the predictability of risk premiums
- components of net returns
- branding and core philosophy

With Katie Lovatt of Dimensional

This time we didn't have a mad dash across London (you may recall our 'mini adventure' in June) and were back to KX in plenty of time for our 6.30 back to Newcastle.

See you next month!