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A rocky road to recovery

Oct 26, 2021

5:45 am

• The market is starting to buy the inflation argument • Although Central Banks are still divided, the momentum is growing • Supply chain issues are becoming more visible, and energy price rises might be sticky • Bond markets are far more nervous about the outcome than equities The post-COVID recovery is turning out to…

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Building Materials – An Alpha Play

Oct 20, 2021

7:20 am

Most of us would recall the heady days of real estate that dominated the first decade of this century. At the time, almost anybody with a large enough piece of land turned into a ‘developer’ as the business was extremely lucrative. A massive demand surge was followed by prices skyrocketing year after year, arguably to…

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Inflation Taxing Bond Investors

Oct 19, 2021

10:53 am

• Bond market appears to be discarding the transitory narrative in favour of a high inflation outcome • Equities, nevertheless, appear to have an upper hand at the moment as they brush off growth concerns • News out of China has not been encouraging, where the property sector is facing potentially existential issues The fight…

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Inching Towards Normal – But Not Without Risks

Oct 12, 2021

7:00 am

• Global equities holding in as bonds feel the pressure. • Investors will need to see downgrades to global growth abate for equities to push on. • Further signs of a re-opening of global travel bode well for renewed growth momentum. • The key risks are less than transitory inflation, particularly in energy prices and…

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