CIO Blog

Most investors had a poor last quarter of 2018.

Following a nearly comatose 2017, 2018 has witnessed a resurgence of volatility for risk assets.

All around us are investment opportunities, and all of them carry risk. Theories of what maximises the former, and limits the latter, abound.

Not in living memory have local elections in the UK – coming in May – been beset by such fervour.

The World’s Who’s Who are in attendance at this year’s annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos.

Markets are exquisitely unpredictable, and each year, events – financial, economic, geopolitical, or otherwise – occur which few see coming, but cause powerful ripples to the prices of securities, and even entire asset classes.

In the eight-and-a-half years since March 2009, the S&P 500 – a global equity bellwether – has rallied by 230%.

Imagine you have just climbed onto a rollercoaster, the bar has lowered overhead and locked you in.

The world has seemingly been on the brink for months, if not years.

UK Snap Election Announcement

What could 2017 have in store for us?