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Opportunity returns to global equity markets – but selectively so

24 April 2018 | Equities

Opportunity returns to global equity markets – but selectively so After rising for a record 15 consecutive months to end January 2018, the S&P 500 index has recently pulled back. This is a welcome development for local fund managers looking for global opportunities.

Facebook’s valuable lesson on being ‘priced for perfection’

24 April 2018 | General

Growth is a slippery and unpredictable beast – not that this stops people trying to forecast it – and when expected growth fails to materialise, the market can be unforgiving

Making sense of shifts and swings

24 April 2018 | General

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 | General

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.

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