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
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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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.