By Adrian Clayton, PSG Asset Management I’m quite sure most people reading this article today will be well aware that in the last month, commodity, bond, equity and currency markets have been in a tailspin, with sizeable gyrations, conditions which feel unnervingly similar to 2008! The magnitude of the problem demands that it [...]
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Recent credit rating downgrades: Greece and Italy
By Arno Lawrenz, CIO, Atlantic Asset Management Last Friday, the ratings agency Fitch downgraded Greece’s sovereign debt rating by 3 notches in one go. This was followed shortly by Standard & Poors (S&P) downgrading Italy by a notch. What are the likely repercussions and meanings of these actions? There are many rumours surrounding what [...]
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The emperor has no clothes and other investment myths
Adrian Saville, CIO of Cannon Asset Managers, lifts the skirt on investment risks that abound and explores some of the opportunities that lie beneath the surface. Since the onset of the global financial crisis, investors seem to have surged from risk loving to risk fearing and back to risk loving. Unlike the Emperor [...]
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Government debt has risen to worrying levels, especially in the large mature economies
What a difference a year makes. The intense fear of a global banking system collapse and impending global depression, which prevailed at the end of 2008 and the start of 2009, has been dispelled and replaced by cautious optimism for a modest global economic recovery in 2010. In the early part of 2010, the global [...]
Tax Guide 2012
Latest Issue - 30 April 2012
In This Issue:
- Local and offshore ETFs
- Why stock selection is key
- Medical Survey - the cost of healthcare
- New player in life insurance market
Newsletters
Newsletter 17 May 2012: Lump sum versus debit order, 3 essentials for a confident investor
In today’s newsletter we look at investing with a lump sum or regular contributions – how do they stack up against each other? We also share three investment tips to cope with uncertainty. Being right about muddle-through hasn’t made investing any easier Most predicted that politically and often economically the year 2012 would be a [...]
