November 2019 – The financial markets remain influenced by developments in the trade conflict between the USA and China, and geopolitical uncertainties about a real Brexit solution. At times of US yield curve inversion and volatilities balanced diversification of investments across various asset classes has been an effective investment approach. 

November 2019 – Although European equities have made up some ground on their US counterparts this year, they lag well behind US equity markets in a long-term comparison. There are a number of key reasons why Eurozone stocks in particular have underperformed American equities over the longer term.

January 2019 - The turbulent performance of Bitcoin over the last year has brought this cryptocurrency to the attention of the wider public. But this currency has actually been around for almost ten years, and an estimated 1,600 other alternative currencies have also sprung up in the meantime. The question is often asked whether these constructs – which only exist in the form of digital code – can really be considered currencies at all in a way that bears comparison with the dollar, euro or yen. We will return to this question later in this article. First of all it is worth establishing what actually lies behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple.