During periods of market sell-offs, the natural human reaction is to contract our investment time horizons and focus on short-term negative noise. It’s at just such times, when our instincts may lead us in the wrong direction, that a well-established investment process can help to avoid behavioural pitfalls. Such a process might usefully include:
The past few months have seen darkening economic skies, reflected in some less than pleasant equity market returns. In the first six months of this year the MSCI AC World Index fell 10.86% in sterling terms, while the FTSE All Share fell 4.4%. It is at moments like this that investors need to focus on long-term thematic drivers of growth, along with disciplines around balance sheet leverage and valuation, to help ensure their portfolios have suitably resilient characteristics.
As real incomes are squeezed and social unrest builds, the areas of strongest spend are likely to be those which are essential to social stability:
All data from Bloomberg unless otherwise stated.
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