Strategy

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.