Most forecasts by well-known financial institutions for 2023 early last year were gloomy and foreboding, and ended up being way off the mark, with global stocks ended the year at +20%. So what should we expect in 2024?

Many people listen to the forecasts because to them, getting it right could mean a windfall and a false sense of certainty to something which is highly unknowable.

Future economic circumstances are reflected in current market prices. Investing based on today’s news can almost be a year (or more) too late.

Stock prices are soaring as the economy struggles. Does this mean the market is overvalued and about to fall? What should you do?

What would happen if you followed the advice of well known investors, hedge fund managers and strategists - supposed experts in their field. Are they really able to beat the market?

As we head into 2020, it helps to look at financial forecasts with the hindsight gained from 2019.

The Bank of America recently declared that the 60/40 portfolio is dead. Yet many similar death reports in the past have proved to be unfounded.

How do you sieve through the mass of confusing investment advice?

Investing is inherently uncertain. As in life, you will never be able to know exactly what will happen, but that should not stop you from investing.

Since the Singapore Summit ended, some market watchers and strategists have been predicting good times ahead. Others take a much more sceptical view. What should an investor do?

Wouldn’t it be great to know in advance whether the stock market will rise or fall and position ourselves to profit from it? In reality, nobody can get it right - not even the giants in investing. We show why it is detrimental to one’s health and wealth to play this fool’s game.

Every year brings its share of surprises. But how many of us could have imagined that 2016 would see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series, Bob Dylan receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Donald Trump elected president, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average close out the year a whisker away from 20,000?

In early 2016, as the stock market was correcting in earnest, market pundits and economists all but proclaimed the end of the current bull market. How did they get it so wrong?

How many times do we have a certain mandate, only to switch to something else when we hear of a good idea from a magazine, a friend or the news?