Investment View

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World Markets Stage a Recovery

08/02/12

Most - but not all - markets have experienced a fairly serious recovery during the month of January 2012, which has continued into the first week of February 2012. This recovery has, to all intents and purposes, been incredibly intense and we briefly summarise below how this has affected certain investment areas:

  • Outlook 2012

    23/01/12

    This year's global question is whether the world can keep growing while Europe ails. It probably can, but uneasily.

  • UK Developed Markets

    January Newsletter

    16/01/12

    We have seen a significant bounce in performance in a number of UK stockmarket indices since late November /early December 2011. This is due, primarily, to sentiment change towards the UK and the uncertainty that exists in Europe.

  • December Newsletter

    12/12/11

    Investment Performance Improves! October 2011 saw a particularly useful rally in the markets on the back of the hoped-for good news from Europe and the overall feeling that politicians, generally, would get on top of the problems.