May, being Mental Health Awareness Month, provides a perfect opportunity to assess the current state of the market and identify potential symptoms of its existing imbalances and disorders. To do this, we must first conduct health checks on the market structure, its key players, and their motives, enabling a better
Recent years have demonstrated the flaws of a traditional 60/40 equity/bond portfolio. Such portfolios suffered one of their worst years on record in 2022, when accelerating inflation and rapidly rising interest rates proved a hostile environment for both global equities and global bonds. Download PDF
The key factors driving markets in the first quarter of the year continued through April. Economic growth has remained resilient, labour markets strong and the earlier falls in inflation have slowed. The long period of high inflation, aggressive monetary tightening and geopolitical uncertainty have not damaged economies as much as