Market views

R-Star Wars
Could today’s market optimism about inflation be misplaced? Oliver Shale warns we may be facing an ‘Empire Strikes Back’ moment, with a second wave of price rises on the horizon.
Would a stock, by any other name, rise just as high?
Traditional finance theory tells us that markets are rational. Investors incorporate all public and private information when making their investment decisions. This school of thought is grappling with the field of behavioural finance, which asserts that human psychology and biases also act in an irrational way to influence these same investment decisions.
Income at any price
In a world of distorted interest rates and high asset prices, protecting capital and producing strong income levels may no longer be mutually compatible.
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