Insights
16 Jan 2024
Delivering Safe Investment Returns In 2024
Despite the risks associated with expensive global share markets, the investment landscape still offers investors prospects for decent returns in 2024. Investment professional Linda Eedes writes that the global…
16 Jan 2024
The Year in Review
After a very negative 2022 — when virtually all asset classes suffered in response to soaring inflation and rapidly rising interest rates — Foord’s investment team was not anticipating a bumper year last year.…
09 Jan 2024
Markets in a Nutshell — For December 2023
Christmas came early for investors after US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell gifted the markets a ‘dovish hold’. It was the biggest hint yet that the Fed could start to ease the squeeze by cutting interest rates…
08 Dec 2023
Markets in a Nutshell — For November 2023
There was plenty of thanksgiving in November as global stocks achieved their biggest monthly rally in three years. Investors piled into markets in the growing conviction that central banks had all but won the fight…
30 Nov 2023
Unmasking the Bond Vigilantes: Guardians of Fiscal Responsibility
In November, the US Federal Reserve paused interest rates for a second time instead of hiking rates further. However, the US bond market did its own hiking, with yields on US government bonds surging across the…
07 Nov 2023
Markets in a Nutshell — for October 2023
Global stock markets fell for a third consecutive month, casting gloom over investors and making this Halloween more ‘trick’ than ‘treat’. Despite optimistic economic data, markets remain spooked by the prospect of…