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After the party, the hangover
5 January 2024The first week of January feeling is eerily reminiscent of one year ago: strikes, endless rain and then everything else that causes the usual January blues. Yet investors in diversified global investment portfolios will get a...
Policy and politics set to play a pivotal role in 2024
18 December 2023Heading into 2024, capital markets are in a somewhat contradictory position. Global growth has been slow (and in some places negative) for some time, while central banks have raised interest rates at the fastest pace in a generation....
Central bank elves boost 2023 Santa rally
15 December 2023Looking back to a year ago, the introduction article to our 2023 outlook was titled: ‘Central bank scrooges cancel Santa rally’. One year can be a long time, and this year provided a very welcome Santa rally to end it. This...
Price shock reversal
1 December 2023November brought investors the opposite of October and turned most portfolio returns into positive mid-single-digit numbers for the year. As we have written here over the past weeks, the distinct turn in sentiment that drove markets...
US economy slows to our pace
24 November 2023November remains a positive month in capital markets, although equities had a neutral week and longer bond prices have fallen back. UK government bonds (Gilts) have been the best performing bond market in the past few weeks, but...
Inflation genie back in the bottle?
17 November 2023This week was another good one for most investors. In sterling terms, the strongest equity markets were in Europe with the DAX up 4.5% since last Friday afternoon. The biggest winners have been small and mid-sized firms; the FTSE...