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Elizabeth Cox | April 15, 2026

Dear Reader,

A few weeks ago we asked Southbank readers a simple question.

How are you feeling about your finances right now?

We expected a range of views. Some cautious optimism. A few concerns about inflation. Perhaps some questions about specific sectors.

What came back was something else entirely.

The same feeling, expressed in hundreds of different ways.

Not panic. Something more subtle than that. And in some ways harder to sit with.

Paralysis.

Investors who have spent decades building their wealth, people who have navigated recessions, rate cycles, and political upheaval, were telling us they simply don’t know what to do next.

One reader put it plainly: “I have money ready to deploy but I cannot bring myself to commit to anything. Everything feels like a trap.”

Another said he had stopped reading his portfolio updates altogether. Not because he had given up. Because the noise had become genuinely overwhelming.

This is not a small minority. It was the dominant mood.

And it stopped us in our tracks.

Because these are not inexperienced people. These are people like you. Thoughtful. Self-directed. Used to making clear decisions with incomplete information.

The fact that so many of you are frozen right now tells us something important. It’s not a personal failing. It is a rational response to a genuinely disordered world.

But here is what I also know.

Staying frozen has a cost. Every week without a clear system is a week the market moves without you. Sometimes in your favour. Often not.

Which is why I want to make sure you hear more about something we are putting together (I’ve hinted at it over the last several Sunday Brunches).

And Sam mentioned it briefly yesterday. I want to add a little more colour.

We’re hosting a private briefing on Tuesday 21 April at 4 pm GMT. It’s specifically designed for investors who are tired of the noise and want a clear, rules-based way to approach their portfolio with genuine conviction.

Not tips. Not predictions. A SYSTEM.

Your Snowball should be different to the SNOWBALL, which only invests in Investment Trusts, ETF’s and CEF’s.

In a rising market.

As prices rise yields fall, so you could take out the profit, leaving the original amount invested and invest in another high yielder in your Snowball or open a new position, which you could add any earned dividends to.

In a falling market.

As prices fall, yields rise so you could re-invest any earned dividends back into your Snowball or open a new position.

In a sideways market.

Re-invest any earned dividends back into your Snowball or open a new position buying more shares that pay more dividends.

Consider your Snowball to be your business and remember the rules.