Following a strong first half of 2023 for equity markets, the third quarter offered something of a reality check as investor sentiment and the market narrative flip-flopped again. In Q2 investors believed that the Fed was on a clear flight path to a soft landing for the economy, and an end to policy tightening. That ...

After a good start to the year, Q2 has been an interesting quarter characterised by the AI related excitement in markets with the narrowest leadership that I have seen in my time in the industry. In early July, we saw Apple close trading with a market capitalisation above US$3trillion, the first for a publicly traded ...

After a very difficult year for investors, markets rose over the first quarter of 2023, despite the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse’s malaise, which caused a sell-off in bank shares. Markets rose on receding recession worries, better inflation numbers and hopes of easier monetary policy and a pivot by the US Federal ...