Monthly Archives: January 2024

Stock markets had a nice bounce last week. This was driven by some positive noises out of China (around supporting the property market) and some decent earnings’ numbers from European and US companies. This filtered through to UK companies (particularly those with exposure to China), with the UK FTSE All Share having its best week […]

The US share market was the shining light last week for global stock markets, with the US S&P 500 closing the week at a fresh all-time high. This was largely thanks to the big technology stocks within the index and helped global share markets eek out a positive return on the week. This helped the […]

Global stock markets rose last week after a slow start to the year. The key driver last week was the US market which itself was boosted by the big technology names which carry such a large weight (nearly 30%) in the US index. There was also some excellent performance from Japanese stock markets which is […]

Investment markets had an excellent end to the year. In fact, Global Stock markets had their best December since 2010 and UK Gilts had their best month since Brexit! This built on a very strong month of November which meant for an excellent quarter to end a very strong year. For the quarter, global stock […]

2024 is the start of a new era for MFDM, with a new company structure and a new brand, Magnus. Magnus translates from Latin to mean “great”, which is what we aspire to be when managing the funds we’re entrusted with, while it is also the name of a church rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren […]