Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland – Het was de RBS die begin dit jaar haar klanten adviseerde om ‘alles’ te verkopen. Ondanks een verder aantrekkende economie slaat het pessimisme van 2015 langzaam om in paniek bij de start van 2016. Waarom adviseert een bank dit terwijl de economie verder aantrekt en op verschillende vlakken zelfs solide is? […]
Weekly Market Outlook: Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland – Emotional investing takes possession of the global markets. Price trends determine investors’ peace of mind while they lose sight of the fundamentals. Emotional investing is a simple investment strategy in which businesses’ intrinsic value is completely ignored by large numbers of people. From a fundamental point of view, there is no evidence to justify […]
Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland – Last week I pointed to the acceleration in the great disruption where a range of technological developments is playing a crucial role. The unions would be well advised to quickly adopt this material. In my view the times when union leader, Prime Minister and Minister of State, Wim Kok, stood on […]
Weekly Market Outlook: Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland – The false start of 2016 has become a fact. Noteworthy is that the strength of the current decline in the S&P 500 is approximately 50% lower than during the correction of August 2015. Rock-solid U.S. jobs figures were completely ignored. This figure confirms the limited U.S. reliance on […]