MAZARS WEALTH MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT NEWSLETTER – January 2018

Tue 23 Jan 2018

The final quarter of 2017 provided investors with further positive returns to cap off an extremely profitable year for equities. Global equities added 5.6% in Sterling terms in the fourth quarter, to bring the full year return to 13.3%. Japanese (11.4%), US (7.0%), and Emerging Market (6.9%) equities were the stand out regions during the quarter as a positive economic outlook and the long anticipated tax reform in the US allowed markets to shrug off concerns about high valuation measures. Despite a further rate hike in the US, and a reversal of the post Brexit rate cut in the UK, bond yields remained low with Gilts returning 1.8% during the quarter.

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