Investment briefing
Every Flavour Beans
A man once sat on a bench externalising his thought process, reminiscing on the advice his mother gave him: ‘life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get’. Admittedly, this was a movie, and the man was the fictitious Forrest Gump, but his mother was right; in a lifetime of unpredictability, Masters of Destiny are often disappointed.
Investment briefing
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.
Investment briefing
After cheering investor spirits with a brief mid-summer rally, global financial markets subsequently sold off through to the start of October.