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Stock markets displayed their unpredictability in 2019, striding surprisingly and steadily higher after shaking off the volatility of the prior year. Low interest rates and generally benevolent economic and profit conditions provided the catalyst.
Conforming under the pressure of peers is something with which most people are familiar. Professor Solomon Asch theorised about it and then used interesting experiments to test his thesis. Extrapolating for investment decisions, we can estimate that 30 per cent of investors will conform to peer pressure.
Occasionally, economic and market valuation conditions are supportive for bonds, shares and property simultaneously. This has been the case in 2019; circumstances being somewhat goldilocks like, neither too hot nor too cold.
As interest rates tumble and price earnings ratios on the stock exchange climb higher, it is only natural that investors look to other investments that offer higher returns.