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Making sense of shifts and swings

24 April 2018

Financial market activity is often dominated by particular themes or narratives. Sometimes these storylines are created after the fact to explain random market movements, but they are often based in reality. Towards the end of 2017, the dominant theme was ‘synchronised global growth’. Though this narrative appears to have taken a backseat to worries over a trade war between the US and China, global growth is still pretty solid. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest set of forecasts, released ahead of its annual gathering in Washington, expects real global growth of 3.9% this year and next year, up from 3.7% in 2017 at the fastest pace since the initial post-crisis bounce in 2011.

Ashburton Investments partners with Fidelity International to enhance offshore multi asset range

23 April 2018

Ashburton Investments, the asset management arm of the FirstRand Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with Fidelity International, a global asset manager with US$324bn assets under management.

16 rules for investment success

23 April 2018

I can sum up my message by reminding you of Will Rogers’ famous advice.

The Crypto Valleys: the regulatory battle to become the global hub of ICOs

19 April 2018

Zug, the small town in Switzerland with little over 30,000 inhabitants, does not appear the obvious choice for the epicentre of EMEA crypto-investment and ICOs, but this little canton has already attracted attention as a fault line in a much wider battle between several jurisdictions vying to become the global ICO hub.

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Do you think short-term insurance broking will survive the AI plus humanoid robotics age?

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Human first always Not a chance Possibly maybe Yes, but reimagined

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