While financials and materials dominated trades leading into 2024, the popularity of other sectors like healthcare and information technology followed generational, and even demographic, lines.
The representative working group is lobbying the government for a broader section of study to be eligible for credit within the ‘equivalent degree’ requirement for advisers in the hope that more people will be encouraged to join the profession.
Equities & Growth Assets Symposium Summary
The Inside Network’s Equities and Growth Assets Symposium welcomed financial advisers, asset consultants and family offices to collaborate and discuss the challenges and opportunities for equities and other growth assets at a time when markets around the world are in uncharted territory.
Interest rates have never been lower and have been supporting both business operations, through lower cost of capital and debt, as well as markedly higher asset valuations. Yet with bond rates around the world now waking from their slumber, delivering returns is likely to become more difficult than ever.
Diversification of equity and other growth asset exposures has become increasingly important at a time when some would suggest fixed income assets have become ‘fixed loss’ due to negative interest rate policies. These and many issues were discussed across a comprehensive agenda.
