Independent Financial Life Planners Bishop's Stortford: Investment trends of 2016/17

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Investment trends of 2016/17

Who would have thought it despite Brexit and Donald Trump becoming president of America the markets have been surprisingly buoyant. Who could have predicted that the Dow Jones would end the year at near 20,000? If you’d bought Germany’s DAX index at its 2016 low (back in February), you’d now be up more than 30%. And the FTSE 100 being at a record high of 7,142? As ever with the markets it is never plain sailing but that was mostly due to turmoil in China at the start of the year.

According to money week two of the biggest investment events of 2016 were the end of the commodities bear market. And then there was the return of rising interest rates as the financial sector started to recover dramatically after a big plunge in 2015. After all the Brexit fear it seems that the markets have got a grip. Perhaps they realised that if Brexit was the worst thing that could happen to the global economy, then things weren’t all that bad.

But will all of this continue into 2017? You ask. It was a long bear market, so it would be surprising for things to turn too bad again too quickly in the commodities market. But interest rates, are harder to predict perhaps they will rise rapidly? It kind of depend more on what politicians do next, will they really start spending? Or will we see another deflationary scare before too long? Britain however is likely to see inflation this year as the effects of the weak pound feed through. If you want to talk through what to do with your investments Enable IFAs are here to help.

http://moneyweek.com/two-big-investment-trends-shaped-2016-but-can-they-survive-in-2017/

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