financial market volatility

"There are a few major stock-market cycles happening in one’s lifetime and one of them is unfolding now,” says OCBC’s head of equities business Alvin Tham. “There are huge trading opportunities and yet there are major pitfalls," he adds.

“This time will be worse than the global recession of 2001,” says chief economist Chetan Ahya, "he underlying damage from both Covid-19’s impact and tighter financial conditions will deliver a material shock to the global economy," he adds.

SINGAPORE (June 25): In the first six months of the year, expectations of synchronised global growth did not quite materialise. Though economic activity has picked up in the US, the same cannot be said for Europe and certain emerging markets (EM).

The prospect of a new US president has sparked a new wave of investing themes in global markets. However, wealth advisers are cautious about recommending funds with concentrated portfolios to ride the trends because of the heightened volatility. What shou

Funds focused on a specific theme, or that hold a concentrated portfolio of securities, can be highly volatile. Even so, a handful of such funds are among the best performers in their categories. Here are three funds Personal Wealth has flagged over the l

SINGAPORE (July 1): While leading indicators support the notion that economic activity appears to have rebounded, the uncertainty brought about by the UK referendum outcome has raised the risk of a renewed global economic slowdown and financial market vol