Insights
04 Nov 2025
MARKETS IN A NUTSHELL — FOR OCTOBER 2025
Investors expecting to be spooked in October left with a sugar rush instead. Despite mounting reasons for caution — stubborn inflation, patchy growth, and the second-longest US government shutdown on record —…
31 Oct 2025
Retirement, Reimagined
The old idea of retirement — a single moment when work stops and leisure begins — no longer fits the modern world. Longer lives, shifting work patterns and uncertain finances are turning retirement into a gradual…
30 Oct 2025
Five Myths About China Investors Need To Rethink
Many investors continue to view China through an outdated lens – as an imitator rather than an innovator, or as a fragile economy reliant on the West. Having recently completed its second annual investment immersion…
23 Oct 2025
The AI Revolution: Learning From Past Bubbles
Artificial intelligence is transforming industries and reshaping how we work, communicate and invest. History reminds us that every great technological leap attracts speculative excess. The railway mania of the…
23 Oct 2025
China's Next Act
Despite its listing global emerging market stock indices, China already produces more electricity than the United States, India and the EU combined. It operates seven of the world’s ten busiest ports. It also ranks…
02 Oct 2025
MARKETS IN A NUTSHELL — FOR SEPTEMBER 2025
Markets commenced September full of optimism and ended it euphoric. The US Federal Reserve cut rates for the first time in a year, Wall Street set new records again, and Chinese technology shares rediscovered their…