Investment fund management has seen many shifting trends that have continued to evolve from the tailend of 2019 into 2020 and now into 2021. This is mostly due to the plethora of knock on effects on the global economy catalysed by the arrival of COVID-19 and the governmental failures to locally and internationally control the virus in many of the world’s major economies, forcing the subsequent and effective shutdown of many traditional subsectors of service based industries, with many asset managers and firms taking an even more active or more proactive approach to managing funds and portfolios in acknowledgement of the unfolding situation.
These shifting, interdependent trends, to which many industries have had to adapt to rapidly, or even just attempt to withstand since the onset of the pandemic, included shifting consumer patterns, curbing of social behaviours through stay-at-home orders and erratic economic policy, which, more than arguably, are all overshadowed by the looming need to protect the environment in its expeditiously, perhaps uncontrollable deterioration, an idea intrinsically coupled to the potential and scope for improvements in technology and methods of production, improvements that must be swiftly enacted if only to entertain the very possibility of restoring mother nature itself.
With global AUM having dropped by around the 4% mark from the start of 2018 to the start of 2019, a fair assumption would have been that the continuation of a pandemic with no end in the foreseeable future would also have affected global AUM negatively. This is actually far from the case, partially due to some useful hedging provided by the increasing success of the most recognisable US and Chinese tech and big data companies as well as a solid number of pharmaceutical companies, including smaller players such as Moderna that announced the creation and forthcoming distribution of an effective COVID-19 vaccine.
So, in spite of near record high levels of unemployment, low levels of consumer disposable income, the stretching of global medical infrastructure and disruption to global supply chains, the combination of influences as mentioned in the two paragraphs above have gone on to facilitate a noted increase in investable assets from 2019 to 2020, with both stock prices and property values also doing well by the tail end of 2020, boosted by the certainty provided by the confirmation of Joe Biden’s presidency and his long track record for supporting big business throughout his political career assisting in the continuation of wealth generation in the financial markets of western economies.
However, with the indications of a shifting investor base that is increasingly moving away from the traditional western economies, along with GDP and purchasing power parity starting to take bigger step towards the global east, means that it is of increasing importance to regularly and consistently observe and analyse market trends and fluctuations on a more frequent basis, and equip oneself with the adequate and relevant tools to do so.
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N.B The information provided here is strictly for illustrative and educational purposes only, and should in not in any way whatsoever, be relied upon as professional investment advice or as recommendations to buy, sell, or hold any investments or investment products of any kind.
6 Source: www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/the-dawn-of-the-asian-century/
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