News & Updates
In our News & Updates section, we’ll keep you informed about what is happening at MeDirect Group. Through this section we also publish weekly market updates provided by well-established fund houses and other interesting financial reads. Make sure to visit often to keep yourself up to date.
Liontrust Insights: Reading the investment clock
Liontrust discusses throughout the article on how the investment clock is a useful method to show the way a business cycle typically develops over time, as well as where it stands in terms of markets and economies at any particular point in time.
Morningstar Views: How Is the U.S. Economy Handling COVID-19 So Far?
Morningstar evaluates the US economy by taking a number of metrics in consideration – retail sales, employment losses and the U.S. manufacturing output. Fiscal policy is also discussed and evaluated.
Legg Mason Perspectives: Britain, the Bank, and Brexit
This article focuses on the UK market and how it is faring with Covid-19 whilst also considering the implications of Brexit and the actions taken by the Bank of England to support the economy.
Franklin Templeton Thoughts: The Fed’s Final Frontier – Negative Rates or Yield Curve Control?
Given fears of a COVID-19 resurgence and US election uncertainties looming, many investors are wondering what comes next for policymakers in terms of supporting the economy. Franklin Templeton’s Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai weighs in on the possibility of negative US interest rates or other measures.
Liontrust Insights: India – between a rock and a hard place
On the 8th of June, hotels, malls and restaurants in India were allowed to re-open in areas not designated as containment zones. While many countries around the world are relaxing lockdown measures, the key difference for India is its number of new cases is still rising at a rate of around 10,000 a day.
Exploring Mutual Funds – Examining the Content of a Portfolio
In this article we will discuss the style boxes Morningstar use to help investors construct diversified, style-controlled portfolios based on the style characteristics of all the stocks and bonds included in that portfolio. We will also have a look at the different sectors.
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