equity market

Following a year of uncertainty, none of the fund managers featured in the Outlook Series were bearish ahead of 2024. Find out why...

Equity market volatility all but guarantees periods of very poor performance for even the best equity market managers.

With equity markets steaming ahead, there’s no shortage of people calling this a ‘dead cat bounce’ and, by implication, predicting another market correction. History,...

With stocks on the rocks, everyone I bump into understandably wants to know if it’s a good time to buy equities – the lure of buying at the bottom is just too great...

Warren Buffett once observed that “In stocks, it’s the only place where, when things go on sale, people get unhappy.” Which is ironic, because bear markets give...

It may have been the federal election that captured the spotlight at home over the past several weeks. For investors, it will be the other E word that will become...

The yield on the 10-year bond recently fell below the yield on the 5-year bond. This is very unusual. Normally, the longer the duration of the bond, the higher the...

Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine has sent global financial markets into a tailspin. In this wire, Frame Funds Management's Hue Frame outlines what a "worst-case"...

This market insight is a selection of questions from our investors that I answer to provide further insight into the year that was, and our outlook for the upcoming...

While the Omicron variant may end up slowing the pace of recovery, we still expect one final rally in reflation sectors, pushing the share market higher into next...

Following a weak September, equities performed strongly during October with the S&P 500 up 6.9% for the month, the Dow Jones gaining 5.8%, the FTSE 100 up by 2.1%...

Who doesn't want to earn a quick buck? We would certainly like to. It is just not that easy in equity markets. But this seems to be the approach taken by many...

It was English writer Rudyard Kipling who famously wrote in his poem "If" of the value of "keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs". In a similar vein,...

With multiple companies making progress in the vaccine space, we have begun to envisage a post COVID-19 investment world. This article will aim to discuss: 1. The...

With the United States Election just around the corner, investors around the world are weighing up the economic pros and cons of each candidate. National polling has...

Who would have thought that, just four months after the market’s March nadir, many stocks would not only have recovered, but be at new all-time highs? Or that...

Good news is good news. Bad news is good news. And no news is good news also! Global equities pushed higher last week as positive ‘re-opening’ data, no second waves,...

Consider a crowded street fair, commonplace to so many of us just 6 months ago. Today, does the thought of visiting the food stalls and shops fill you with fear and...

Across developed economies, which have all shown continued signs of weakness of late, the United States has experienced relatively stronger growth while the stagnant...

A resumption of US-China trade tensions saw global equities pull back in May, with the MSCI All-Country World Index declining by 5.7% in local currency terms. As seen...