2023 Economic Outlook: Navigating uncertainty and finding opportunities in a volatile market..
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Market Outlook
From Stropro's Investment Team
While it's never been an easy task, predicting the 2023 economy feels harder than ever. The broad sentiment among experts in the financial industry is that a recession is all but inevitable in developed markets this year. However, as dawn breaks in 2023, this bearish consensus is being challenged.
In one scenario, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and economic sanctions on Russia, coupled with depressed global equity prices, uncertainty, and multi-year-high interest rates that are sapping consumer, business, and investment confidence, could drive the global economy into a recession by 2023. In this environment, deteriorating trade, investment, and financial-market conditions would amplify the shock, causing a global recession worse than the sum of individual regional recessions.
Alternatively, a few Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Citigroup analysts now feel that we could narrowly avoid a recession if economic activity cools just enough to allow for inflation to fall back toward targets. This would represent the ‘soft landing’ scenario, where a brief economic slowdown transitions into sustainable growth towards the end of the year. Economists are keeping an eye on three key factors that could lead to the more optimistic scenario: resilience in business and consumer activity in the U.S., a mild winter in Europe, and a potential abandonment of zero-COVID policy in mainland China.
2022 was a wake-up call that revealed the limitations of conventional investment strategies in a world of unpredictability. With increased volatility and uncertainty, the traditional investment approaches may no longer be effective. According to the world's largest asset manager, Blackrock: 2023 will require a new investment playbook that involves more frequent portfolio changes and more granular views rather than broad exposures. This sentiment is echoed by global financial market commentator, Mohamed El-Erian, who stresses the importance of being selective this year, utilizing smart structuring and being dynamic in our asset allocation, rather than relying solely on low fees from passive vehicles.?
With the market transitioning into a new era of investing, combined with lower prices, higher yields, and wider spreads in many fixed income categories, our investment team believes our offerings provide the much-needed opportunities for portfolio diversification, potential return enhancement, defined returns, and risk mitigation.
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What Caught Our Attention!?
We wanted to share the following news and articles with you which we here at Stropro found interesting:
20-01-23 - Reuters - JPMorgan begins private lending drive with $10 billion...
20-01-23 - Axios - What to know..extraordinary measures as debt ceiling hits
19-01-23 - Reuters - Chinese companies set for biggest earnings growth in 5
10-01-23 - UBS - Stocks rise as rate hike worries ease
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