Lexington Times (July 2025)

2025 Midyear Review – The Bumpy Road to New Highs

After two remarkable years in the financial markets, February and March brought a return to a more familiar pattern. But here’s the reality check we all needed: After two years of very little volatility, this is the market behaving precisely as we should expect it to.

Don’t Get Bored With the Basics

At Lexington Wealth, we’ve always seen pensions as more than just retirement vehicles, they’re long-term wealth builders and, until now, a highly effective way to pass assets to loved ones tax-efficiently. The government has announced a significant change, read on to find out more.

THE STOCK MARKET (UPDATED JULY 2025)

The key benchmark you should care about is achieving all of your financial and life goals and not running out of money.

The Unimportant Numbers – 1 Month

Monthly figures are a distraction from your long-term goals, we’ll help you avoid the noise.

The Important Numbers – 30 Years

Investing in the Great Companies of the World has produced life-changing returns for the disciplined and patient investor.

RATIONAL OPTIMISM

The media is not a friend of the disciplined and patient investor. Whether it’s on TV, Print or Online, the media prefers to focus on short-term returns, market predictions, and negative news. Which is not suitable for a long-term investor.

Below are the stories, podcasts, and images which we wanted to share with you this month, which are uplifting, interesting and informative.

These links below will take you to articles on other websites.

Interesting News

We present the following as an antidote to the onslaught of negative news.

Further Reading

Here are some articles you may find interesting this month.

Listen & Watch

  • The science behind dramatically better conversations
    Charles Duhigg explains about that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect.
  • The Game We Can’t Stop Playing
    We’re not just playing a game with our neighbours anymore. We’re playing it against everyone, everywhere, all the time.


A Picture is worth 1000 Words