Global stock markets plunged in the final quarter of the year, resulting in double digit annual losses for equity investors worldwide.

Global stock markets plunged in the final quarter of the year, resulting in double digit annual losses for equity investors worldwide.
Sometimes we grow so used to the music playing in the background we forget just how extreme and unprecedented these quantitative easing (QE) programs are.
Turbulence in the market can cause a range of emotions amongst investors. Fear, frustration and panic are amongst expected reactions.
Global markets struggled this quarter, but the U.S. bucked the trend, and posted its largest quarterly gain in nearly five years.
With the BoC and the U.S. Federal Reserve well into their rate hiking cycles, investors have fixated on the flattening shape of government yield curves.
Perversely, investors’ propensity to take on risk seems to increase the longer a cycle lasts and the higher past returns have been.