A face-to-face meeting was long over due. I approve of Chris's generally optimistic bottle half-full approach to market prospects.

He doesn't see the Footsie hitting 7,000 this year but he expects it to come close. Behind the caveats that go hand-in-hand with the forecasting profession, Chris takes a pretty upbeat view of the prospects for share prices.

He expects that there will be greater volatility but because equity valuations remain fixed in reality, the general march of share prices should be upward.