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Market CommentaryNovember 13, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – October 202513th November 2025Understanding gold in portfolios Gold has been a focus of discussion recently as its price has risen sharply.…
Market CommentaryOctober 16, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – September 202516th October 2025From factsheet to reality: Bridging the investment performance gap In investments, it is very seldom that the portfolio…
Market CommentarySeptember 12, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – August 202512th September 2025In the Absence of Uncertainty, There Is No Reward In investing, uncertainty is often cast as the villain.…
Market CommentaryAugust 14, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – July 202514th August 2025Global Market Overview Global markets continued to build on their mid-year momentum in July, buoyed by easing inflationary…
Market CommentaryJuly 17, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – June 202517th July 2025Maybe There Is No Such Thing as Passive Investing Reframing a Debate That’s Gone On Too Long The…
Market CommentaryJune 13, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – May 202513th June 2025Investor Behaviour: The Greatest Threat to Portfolio Performance Over the past decade, PortfolioMetrix has pioneered a paradigm shift…
Market CommentaryMay 14, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – April 202514th May 2025What We Know for Sure: How Uncertainty Distorts Decision-Making Geopolitical risk is grabbing headlines again. In today’s investment…
Market CommentaryApril 17, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – March 202517th April 2025Is the S&P 500 Equal Weighted Index the solution you think it is? The S&P 500 is widely…
Market CommentaryMarch 14, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – Feb 202514th March 2025Trump 2.1: Markets Grapple with the Dualities of Growth and Uncertainty President Trump’s re-election in late 2024, often…
Market CommentaryFebruary 21, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – Jan 202521st February 2025DeepSeek; A Lesson in Thematic Investing January saw a major shake-up in the artificial intelligence (AI) investment landscape.…
Market CommentaryJanuary 16, 2025Monthly Market Commentary – December 202416th January 2025New Year, Not So New US President: Trump 2.0, Tariffs & Inflation We enter a new year with…
Market CommentaryDecember 12, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – November 202412th December 2024Investors behaving badly: a cheat sheet to narrowing the behaviour gap Emotions define us as humans, but it…
Market CommentaryAugust 15, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – July 202415th August 2024In July, markets delivered mixed results across different asset classes. Global bonds performed well as yields fell, driven…
Market CommentaryJuly 11, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – June 202411th July 2024June saw mixed results across markets, with varying returns in both bond markets and equity regions. Generally, bond…
Market CommentaryJune 12, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – May 202412th June 2024Inflation in the US continues on its downward trend, just at a slower pace than originally anticipated by…
Market CommentaryMay 8, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – April 20248th May 2024Stickier-than-expected inflation and geopolitical tension were the overarching themes for April. The US, UK, and Euro area all…
Market CommentaryApril 12, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – March 202412th April 2024March saw the end of the last standing negative interest rate, with Japan’s central bank raising its policy…
Market CommentaryMarch 18, 2024Monthly Market Commentary – February 202418th March 2024A continuation of the strong US earnings season and stronger US economic data reignited market confidence from the…