Today’s daily missive marks our second last publication for the year and the last of our 2021 outlooks, finishing with our multi-asset view. While it’s useful to derive and forecast performance objectives for specific asset classes, it’s increasingly important to...
If you missed last week’s missive, I’d encourage you to take a look, as today I continue from where we left off last week. The original topic was to deconstruct modern portfolio theory, in order to build portfolios that meet...
Mark Twain once observed: “History does not repeat, but it rhymes.” We are seeing parallels between current markets and 1999, the start of a ten-year period where US equities indices returned negatively. There have been 6 different “Lost Decade” periods...
The world changed last week, and not just because of the US election. Pfizer announced a COVID-19 vaccine that is looking to be over 90% effective in stage 3 clinical trials. The market also knows that many other COVID-19 vaccines...
For investors, risk and return go hand in hand where for a potentially higher return on capital, there is a corresponding increase in risk. This is known as the risk-return trade-off. It is important to be aware that investing is...
I’ve wrote the majority of this note on 2-October and since original time of writing, it has been reported that US President Trump and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19 and have begun their 14-day quarantine period. It would...