If the UK equity market was out of favour at the beginning of 2020, it's even more so now. Until the arrival of three vaccines prompted a wave of market exuberance towards the end of the year, UK equities had fallen approximately 20%. The only two worse-performing equity markets were Russia and Brazil...
Global equities can continue to perform well in 2021, but tech may have to share
the limelight with some unloved areas. Meanwhile, a number of mega-trends will
continue to gather pace.
The launch of the 1st fund in 2009, on the theme of the aging of the population, allowed CPR AM to position itself as a leading player in the field of thematic investment.
When China's leading telecoms operators launched their 5G data plans on 1 November, they were two months ahead of schedule in going live with one of the world's biggest next-generation networks, demonstrating the pace of digital evolution in Asia's largest economy.
With stock markets close to all-time highs at a time of very elevated economic uncertainty, the question arises if investors have become too confident. Today's chart from The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes reveals how probable U.S. individual and institutional investors think a stock market crash is.