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There are no guarantees that the V-shaped recovery will hold

Those of us who rely on the stock market to fuel our investment portfolio returns may wish to rethink our strategies, given the poor earnings outlook for firms on both domestic and offshore stock markets. Adrian Saville, CEO and founder of Cannon Asset Managers, has warned that the constituents of the MSCI All World Index would likely see a 70% decline in earnings in 2020. He was presenting during a supplementary budget outlook webinar hosted by Liberty Group. JSE-listed firms were expected to report a 30% decline in earnings.

Balanced Funds, How to avoid the snakes and find the ladders

Such is the dispersion of the investment performance delivered by multi-asset fund managers that Rupert Hare, Portfolio Manager at Prescient Investment Management, likens the process of selecting a balanced fund manager to playing a game of snakes and ladders.

Investors still benefited over the past 15 years

Over the past 15 years, South Africa (and the global economy) has faced several headwinds.

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