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Q1 2025
HOUSE REPORT TRICKS OF THE TRADE
Despite a turbulent 2024, markets have remained resilient, with geopolitical challenges and regime change in Washington not derailing growth. As we step into 2025, what strategies will define success in navigating the year ahead?
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Managing risk through distinct lenses
As an investment manager, managing risk is always front of mind in how we at Sarasin & Partners serve our clients. Here we outline our thought processes in how we balance different risks, to maximise the possibility of the best outcomes for our clients. At its core, ‘risk’...
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The correction that never was
Investors will remember 2024 as the year of the much-anticipated market correction that never arrived. Despite geopolitical turmoil in Europe and the Middle East, escalating trade tensions with China, and persistently sticky core inflation, every major equity market – barring Brazil – delivered positive returns. Even the Republican...
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Investment focus: Alternative thinking
The use of alternative assets to improve portfolio diversification and to provide a source of uncorrelated returns has been a longstanding feature of Sarasin & Partners multi-asset portfolios. The illustration below sets out our principles for investing in alternatives along with the typical exposures to the different strategies...
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Talking tariffs - the history of global trade
Trade has always been more than just a matter of swapping goods – it’s a battleground for competing ideas about wealth, power, and national strategy. From the hoarding instincts of mercantilism to Adam Smith’s invisible hand; and from David Ricardo’s elegant theory of comparative advantage to Alexander Hamilton’s...
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Why thematic?
At Sarasin & Partners we have long pioneered a global, thematic approach to investing. This thematic philosophy is encapsulated in our view that markets underappreciate the impact of structural trends. Here, we explain how that approach works. Structural trends are long-term forces that shape behaviours, societies, industries, and...
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Six Minute Strategy: So, what’s ahead for global markets in 2025?
Investors will remember 2024 as the year of the market correction that never arrived. Despite geopolitical turmoil in Europe and the Middle East, escalating trade tensions with China, mostly every major equity market delivered positive returns. Even the Republican ‘clean sweep’ in Washington, which most saw as a...
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