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Financial Market
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Five charts on investing to keep in mind in rough times like these
Key points
- Successful investing can be really difficult in times like the present with immense uncertainty around the impact of coronavirus on the outlook.
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Market Insights - 2022 review & 2023 outlook
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- 2022 was dominated by high inflation, rising interest rates, war in Ukraine & recession fears. This hit bonds & shares hard, driving reductions in the prices for growth accounts, offering rare buying opportunities for dollar cost averaging strategies. Income returns from diversified growth portfolios remain solid and above average.
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Shares sliding again – what’s driving it and is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
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- Share markets remain under pressure from high inflation, rising rates & bond yields and the rising risk of recession and the threat that poses to company profits.
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What to expect moving forward after World Financial Markets fell early this year!
Higher medium return potential (assuming inflation is tamed)...
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- The fall in bond and share values and rise in their investment yields on the back of higher inflation has seen our medium term (5 to 10 year) return projections for a diversified mix of assets rise to around 6.8% pa.
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Investing under uncertainty
What is the essence of successful long-term equity investing? It’s embedded in the right focus – on things we can control and things that matter. It means basing our investment policy on our financial plan as distinctly opposed to a view of the economy, the markets and the daily noise surrounding them.
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Another five great charts on investing that are very useful in times of uncertainty like the present
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- Successful investing can be really difficult in times of uncertainty like now making it important to stay
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Macro Investment Update - January 2022
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- 2021 saw strong investment returns with low volatility.
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Correction time? Shares get the wobblies – seven things investors need to keep in mind.
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- Share markets have hit the wobbles lately on the back of a long worry list ranging from growth concerns, central bank tapering, the US debt ceiling and fears of about China Evergrande’s problems.
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Mid-year Economic Market Update 2020
We look at a few statistics on what has happened with the economy so far and insights into what's to come.
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2019-20 saw poor returns
but it could have been much worse...
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- 2019-20 saw a rough ride for investors as coronavirus hit resulting in small losses for well diversified investors.