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This is the time of year when prognostications bloom. The reality is that nobody has any idea what will happen in the year ahead. Forecasts tend to reflect the ideological or emotional views of the forecaster, and the strongest correlation of any forecast is with what happened in the past year.
Read more about Reflections & Insights – Q1 2026You can never erase your digital footprint. With that in mind, we thought it might be worth revisiting the prognostications of this review at the beginning of 2023. It is a cause of regret that, while broadly correct, we were not banging the drum for risky assets. That would have been the right call, as most equity and bond markets had a very good 2023.
When you write a review with a quarterly cadence, the onus is on you to produce something new, even when the landscape hasn’t changed that much.
After a strong start to the year, Emerging Market (EM) equities lost momentum and struggled to regain traction as stocks…
And still, we wait. The economy in the developed world is not yet responding to its monetary medicine…
It is a year since interest rates started to rise substantially around the developed world. It is hard to overstate the amount of ink spilt since trying to determine whether…
The last 12 months have been extremely challenging for economies and financial markets, but perhaps nowhere was as impacted as…
At the end of 2021, it was all so obvious. Oh, for the beauty of hindsight. Going back a year, of course, none of this was obvious
Markets fluctuate, Lisa. Who knows how much a quarter will be worth next week?
The last two years have been tumultuous, to say the least, with a seemingly unending onslaught of challenges…
