Global Market Overview – 3rd Quarter 2021 Developed market equities were broadly flat over the third quarter following a decline in September that erased the quarter’s prior gains. Year to…
“In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” – Robert Arnott Global Market Overview Strong economic data came through during August, though much of the developed world appears to be…
“Buy good companies, don’t overpay and do nothing.” – Terry Smith, Fundsmith CEO & Founder Global Market Overview The global economic recovery continued in July, with the vaccine rollout making…
Global Market Overview – 2nd Quarter 2021 Over the second quarter of 2021, governments in most developed countries continued to relax COVID- 19 confinement measures and economic activity marched ahead.…
“It isn’t growth versus value, it isn’t the level of markets, it isn’t the economic growth rate in 2021 or the progress of the pandemic, but it is understanding change,…
Global Market Overview In April, expectations for spectacular economic growth turned from forecast to fact, as the reopening of economies lifted developed market economic data. Markets spent much of the…
Global Market Overview – 1st Quarter 2021 The first quarter of the year was dominated by rising bond yields and a value-led equity market rally. The two key drivers of…
Global Market Overview The drop in infections and the rapid vaccination rollout continued to drive markets higher in February. The UK and US are progressing well with their vaccination programmes…
Market Insights Whilst first-quarter global growth will be at best sluggish, reflecting the recent wave of the virus in the US and Europe, market participants are looking ahead to a…
Global Market Overview – 4th Quarter 2020 So, it’s finally over... 2020 will likely go down in the history books as one not to be repeated. It started with the…