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The transportation sector has a significant impact on global emissions, but technology innovations, policy changes and shifting behaviours can reduce this. How are the different modes progressing?
After an exceptional 2022, the UK reverted to recent type with a big underperformance in 2023. With money continuing to disappear from the market, two potential catalysts for change have emerged
With real rates rising as inflation falls, we explain why central banks should consider cutting interest rates soon.
The CT UK Social Bond Fund has pioneered impact investing for fixed income, through investments that deliver positive social outcomes and a financial return consistent with the risk profile of the broad UK investment grade credit market. We talk to portfolio manager Tammie Tang.
Political noise is a distraction in any market environment but in an election year the clamour is heightened. So, in February we had one of our holdings, Nat West Bank, reporting its biggest annual profit since the 2007 financial crisis but in the days that followed seeing its share price fall on speculation of a possible windfall tax on the banking sector. As an investor, sometimes it feels like you can’t win.
After a challenging 2023 for equity investors holding anything other than the narrow band of large US stocks known as the Magnificent 7, there was hope at the end of the year that better times were on their way. While the risk of recessions lingered (in February the UK was confirmed to have slipped into a technical recession in Q4 2023), inflation was coming down and bond yields were falling in the expectation that interest rate cuts were just around the corner. But alas, investors jumped the gun as January saw sentiment sour and equities reverse as one central banker after another extinguished early rate cut hopes.
A favourite bedtime story for my son is Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The larvae eats its way through many fruits and sugary treats day by day, before blooming into a beautiful butterfly. Given my son’s tendency to eat all snacks placed in front of him, I sometimes wonder if the story’s words are in fact a memoir of his day! This theme of sluggish growth before gorging its way to beauty is somewhat reminiscent of the current UK equity market.
Interest rates, growth and financial markets
About 70% of world market capitalisation is now attributed to the ‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks1. Should investors be worried about this level of concentration?
Discussing the extent of cuts and the implications for markets?
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