Fund and Market Commentary: December 2018
Calendar Year 2018 was a very difficult year for equity markets around the world with most markets in the red. Earlier this month, we published a detailed research note on what happened in 2018 and our outlook for 2019. For those that missed it, please click here to […]
In my post last year I introduced the topic of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals are a call for action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognise that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic […]
Andrew Bascand, Shane Solly | Posted on Jan 28, 2019
One of the driving factors behind the global financial crisis (GFC) was high levels of company debt. High leverage and lower earnings coverage of interest costs heightened risk in the US equity market. Recently published research by a global investment bank[*] suggests that US company debt levels may be creeping up again. […]
Market Overview, a quarterly commentary on market events from Q4 2018. Key highlights from the quarter were:
January 2019
Morphic’s Joint CIO Chad Slater gives an overview of what happened during the last quarter of 2018 and explains how the Morphic funds are positioned for 2019.
30 January 2019
To look forward to this half, we need to look backwards.
Annie Duke’s “Thinking in Bets”[1] is one of the best books of 2018. Annie was a psychology student who went on to become a world series poker champion and this is her book on how poker can help improve decision making in the real world. One of the […]
January 2019
Executive Summary
History will likely show that 2018 was the peak for GDP growth in the current economic cycle. While growth is expected to be softer in 2019, we don’t anticipate a significant slowdown and expect all major developed economies will still be growing ahead of their respective trend rates.
Growth was strong in the US in 2018. Into 2019, the […]
Simon Pannett | Feb 1, 2019
Changes to banking rules are set to have a meaningful impact on New Zealand’s fixed interest market in 2019:
“Voters are angry but they don’t want their savings in monopoly money”
Marko Papic, Chief Strategist at BCA on why countries will retain the Euro as their currency despite rising nationalism (supplied by FNZ)
Market turmoil: Market moves (both up and down) have been extreme in recent months. In the US, the S&P500 hit an all time […]
In this month’s Fact Sheet, we cover the following: