IBOSS updates

Fixed income has spent much of the past decade out of favour, quietly side lined as investors have increasingly gravitated toward equities. The pattern is not unfamiliar: markets,…

Putin thought his ‘Special Operation’, which was meant to invade and seize power in Ukraine, would be over in a matter of days. What he got instead was…

The upbeat mood of equity markets seemingly continued last week, at least as far as UK investors were concerned, with global equities up 1.5% in sterling terms. However,…

Global equities were in fine fettle last week, posting increases of 2.5% or so in both local currency and sterling terms. The gains were concentrated on Wednesday when…

At the time of writing, discussions of asset allocation, macroeconomic outlooks and geopolitical events continue to dominate the headlines. Advisers are frequently presented with arguments why one region’s…

Last week saw the disconnect between the performance of some areas of equities and other markets widen further. Global equities ended the week broadly unchanged in both local…