As unemployment data from the US disappointed the market, putting investors into a tailspin, all eyes moved to crypto. Seen as a hedge against inflation and recession, would investors switch their equity funds as a form of protection?
As with so many investment services and opportunities in the modern era, we often take the importance of global investment services for granted. They impact investors, financial markets, and the wider global economy.
As companies and institutions continue to recover from the weekend global IT outage, very few people saw the source of such an issue. Many have been highlighting our overdependence on IT, most notably the Internet, but apparently one simple rogue Windows update brought the worldwide system (or most of it) to its knees.
Since the US subprime mortgage sector crashed in 2008, global financial markets have experienced several challenges. As we await much-anticipated news on US interest rates, this has not been the perfect scenario for frontier markets. However, investors are now more appreciative of the long-term potential of these markets, with particular interest in countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.
As the term suggests, quantitative finance involves the use of mathematical models, statistics, and computational algorithms to analyse financial markets and securities. It is primarily used to identify trading opportunities, optimise portfolios, and manage risk and price derivatives.
Before we discuss low latency execution in more detail, it’s important to understand the term latency. In its most basic form, latency is the delay between a user passing an instruction and that instruction reaching its destination before being executed. In the world of cutting-edge investment and trading, every millisecond helps.
Whatever type of investment you are considering, it all boils down to one thing: risk and reward. This is where risk tolerance comes into play – in essence, the amount of risk you’re willing to take to achieve your investment goals. In this article, we will consider different types of risk tolerance and how they can change over the years. As with anything related to investment markets, nothing stays the same forever!
Recently, we have seen a significant increase in demand for corporate bonds as investors look to secure relatively high income streams and a safe home for their capital. It can be challenging to look ahead, as we saw with the US Federal Reserve recently suggesting there may just be one interest rate reduction this year, against initial hopes of six at the start of the year. This perfectly reflects how important it is to be aware of factors that move corporate bond prices and how you can safeguard your capital.
As an investor, it’s important to inject a degree of reality into your investment decisions and be able to spot what are commonly known as red flags. There are numerous different types of red flags, which are very often easy to spot in hindsight – perhaps not so easy in the moment!
While FinTech tends to grab the investment headlines, there is an ongoing revolution in smart agriculture technology. Even though huge improvements in agricultural techniques have already been identified and implemented, many believe we are only scratching the surface of the potential, especially in the APAC region.
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