Weekly market & economic update – week ending 5 September, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with Eurozone shares up on the ECB’s monetary easing and talk of a

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Assessing risk: low probability, high impact events

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Risk is a word that generally tends to be thought of in a negative light. However, in the investment world risk is a necessary part of investing and cannot be

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Even in a rising rate environment, bonds have an important role to play

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Over the past year or two, investors globally have become more wary about bonds, envisaging the end of the 30-year rally in bond yields. Yields on bonds remain relatively low,

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Quantitative easing creates investment ‘Waterworld’

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Visiting global strategist Michael Power from Investec Asset Management suggests new safe havens for stranded investors The enormous injections of liquidity via quantitative easing (QE) has created a financial ‘Waterworld’,

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