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Since the beginning of Trump’s presidency in 2017, trade war news dominated media headlines and rocked global financial markets. Then in 2020, an unexpected pandemic overturned the world both socially and economically. From early last year, trade iss...

Despite some recent choppiness, stock market averages continue to hover near their all-time highs – but that masks a subtle shift occurring beneath the surface. Lately, cyclical stocks, or those most dependent on economic strength for profits, have b...

After a long hiatus, stock dividends may finally be having their day in the sun. Last year, dividend-focused strategies lagged the overall market averages by a wide margin. In the year of the pandemic, investors flocked to growth stocks leaving more ...

Inflation expectations just reached their highest levels in a decade and that has some investors on edge. Every week we see additional news coverage about resurgent inflation and rising longer-term interest rates. In the world of fixed income, intere...

With the turmoil that was 2020 in the rear-view mirror, investors are looking to the future as vaccine distribution begins and the global economic recovery gains traction. In the months ahead, we see reasons for both optimism and caution. On balance,...

The closely watched US election and its aftermath has recently taken a back seat to breakthrough vaccine progress, an apparent second wave of the Covid-19 virus, and central bank policy. Despite the tight and messy presidential race last month, equit...

After last week’s sell off, markets have since rallied sharply on the back of what will likely be a divided American house. While the US presidency remains up for grabs due to the time delay of mail-in ballot counting, the Republican Party appears to...

This article is one of six pieces, published between October 2 and 7, in support of the Bermuda Stock Exchange World Investor Week Quiz Challenge. Each article has a question embedded. Once you have answers to all six questions and send them to wiwqc...

Many of today’s most respected institutional investors pay close attention to a long-standing theoretical construct referred to as ‘Modern Portfolio Theory’ and for good reason. Modern Portfolio (MPT) was developed in the early 1950s by finance profe...