REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) offer investors an attractive combination of income, diversification, and potential capital appreciation. As of the end of 2024 and the start of 2025, many REITs are trading at multiples significantly lower than historical averages. Valuations…
Investors often go through period of hightened risk aversion and focus too much on avoid losses while ignoring the opportunties. Ther are many reason that can motivate investor to stay out of the market, including: Whichever reason overly risk averse…
Inflation is cooling, due to restrictive monetary policy that is starting to impact the aggregated demand. Main tool used by the central bank to reduce aggregated demand is interest rates increases. Higher rates are helping to reduce consumption through making…
For over a decade Wall Street has been repeating that ‘There Is No Alternative’ (TINA) to equities, but this year for the first time Wall Street suggest ‘There Are Reasonable Alternatives’ (TARA). There is one reason for this significant shift…
Central banks are focusing on defeating persistently above-target inflation, by performing the most aggressive tightening in 4 decades: FED 500 bps since March 2022 (5% in 14 months) BOE 440 bps since December 2021 ECB 375 bps since July…
At the end of this week we saw increased volatility. VIX has spiked in last two days amid anxiety over Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) default risk and potential implications for the regional banks and private equity sectors, and overall increase…
End of 2021 marks the peak of the raging bull market supported by a fast recovering economy and record fiscal and monetary stimulus. At that time, the risk of inflation and overheating of the economy were discussed by everyone. Valuations…
While the rule of thumb indicates recession as two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP, many institutions look also into other variables to confirm economic downturn. This usually includes consumer and business spending, industrial production and labour market. Current situation…