We’re spending more time than ever before shopping through our smartphones and laptops rather than braving multi-storey car parks and crowded high streets.
3 mins
19 September 2019
Signs of weaker growth are less worrying than they first appear
<p>A broader swathe of economic indicators — of the recent past, present and future — have fallen to indisputably weaker levels than at any time since the 2008 global financial crisis. That means we have more reasons than at any time over the past decade to be worried about the outlook for the US and global economies over the next 12 months.</p>
5 mins
11 September 2019
Investing in defensive equity sectors as the cycle matures
When the pace of economic growth begins to slow and the outlook becomes more gloomy, it makes sense for investors to start shifting their equity investments away from cyclical sectors and towards defensive ones, even if you don’t think a recession is necessarily likely to ensue.
