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Download issue:English /Français /Deutsch /Español /ItalianoAfter a difficult year for markets in 2018, with very few asset classes posting positive returns, we anticipate that 2019 will be a year when the “three amigos”— consisting of a bear, a bull and a kangaroo—stake out their territory in financial markets. In other words, we expect plenty of ups and downs—but also think that investors sufficiently smart to exploit volatility spikes will, like a kangaroo, be able to bounce ahead.In the...

Published: 6th February 2017Download issue:Donald Trump’s presidential win has unleashed animal spirits in the US that are likely to continue to drive equities forward in 2017. So argues Frank Bigler, head of equity investment research at Pictet Wealth Management, in the latest special edition of Perspectives. There are undoubtedly risks, but for the moment, “the overall direction of the market is still up,” according to Bigler “and any pull-back would be taken as an opportunity to...