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Money Matters Nov 28th, 2016

General Consensus: Over the past 3 weeks, global markets have decoupled, with price action suggesting strong consensus positioning across the developed world. In particular, investors

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Money Matters Nov 21st, 2016

Europe: Eurostoxx 3,025 -2.82%, German Bund 0.29% -3.60bps, Xover Credit Index 347 -2bps, EURUSD 1.063 +2.52% The positive US tone did not carry over to

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Money Matters Nov 1st, 2016

United States: S&P 2,126 -0.69%, 10yr Treasury 1.84% +11.21bps, HY Credit Index 415 +12bps, Vix 16.31 +2.85Vol Most US equities finished lower this week, with

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Money Matters Oct 25th, 2016

United States: S&P 2,141 +0.38%, 10yr Treasury 1.72% -6.30bps, HY Credit Index 398 -6bps, Vix 13.18 -2.78Vol Recent, modestly higher, volatility fell away last week

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Money Matters Oct 17th, 2016

United States: S&P 2,133 -0.96%, 10yr Treasury 1.79% +7.96bps, HY Credit Index 405 +2bps, Vix 16.12 +2.64Vol Last week continued the trend of a positive

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Education Fees

Fee increases greater than inflation. There is no doubt that school fees have been annually rising by several percentage points more than inflation in most

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Money Matters Oct 10th, 2016

United States: S&P 2,154 -0.67%, 10yr Treasury 1.71% +12.37bps, HY Credit Index 401 +3bps, Vix 13.48 +0.19Vol US equities again correlated positively with bonds –

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Money Matters Sep 14th, 2016

Asia Pacific: The MSCI Pacific returned 0.4% in the week to 9 September 2016. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was the best-performing major global market, jumping

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