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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...

Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next US Federal Reserve Bank chairman to succeed Ben Bernanke and so far the financial markets like the decision. Both fixed income and equity markets rose immediately after Yellen’s speech to the Senate Banking...

Now that the dust has begun to settle from Washington’s debt ceiling drama which included a 16-day government shutdown, investors are left focusing on the damage done and what’s ahead for the world’s largest economy. Clearly, America’s ongoing fisca...