A long-term view, with diverse opportunities among the largest 700 companies in the world may be the key to solid returns - SMH article 22 Feb 2019.

2018 was a perplexing year for investment markets, having started apprehensively due to economic growth and rising interest rates concerns, which was then followed by a benign mid-year period of greater optimism and growth, that ended abruptly in the final quarter. By year-end markets of all types - stocks, bonds and currencies - were experiencing heightened investor agitation and volatility.