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2025: A Rollercoaster Year for Global Investors
The year 2025 was quite the rollercoaster for global investors with many ups and downs throughout. Markets swung from tariff-driven selloffs to AI-fuelled rallies, and finally to valuation concerns as optimism collided with stagnating growth. For investors, the year emphasised the importance of diversification in a global market.
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To Hedge Or Not To Hedge? That Is The Question
Looking back over last decade, it is very evident (in the rear-view mirror) that there has been more than a little variance associated with holding US dollars and dollar-priced assets.
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The Right Bill of Lading
‘…Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wrack’d on the narrow seas;’
(The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene I).
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To The Lighthouse
‘Where the race is quickest the tide runs strong’ (Runrig, 1995).
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Wind-rock
Being situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is somewhat prone to strong winds in winter. Well actually, the Island is prone to gales…most of the year round.
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Fortune’s Favours
The eighteenth century English mathematician, Thomas Bayes, was purportedly the first father of statistical data analysis, developing a theorem which allowed probabilities to be updated depending on available information.