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The Bermuda Institute is leading the pack in the annual KPMG Investment Challenge. The school’s two teams, Profit Bulls and Investables, are in first and second place respectively and are two of only three teams in the 18-team competition to show a p...

Week ending January 22, 2016 Last week was the first positive week of 2016 with the S&P Global 1200 up a modest 1.46 per cent and the US S&P 500 up 1.43 per cent. Year to date both indices are down — Global was down 7.56 per cent whilst the US index...

With markets around the world taking a dive on Wednesday, it appeared to be an inauspicious day to be talking up investment opportunities. But at LOM’s lunch meeting to discuss emerging markets, the focus was on developments later this year — and fur...

Warwick Academy’s From Bears to Bulls team in the KPMG Investment Challenge may be in their pyjamas — but they are not sleeping on the job. The team was sitting third in the November ratings in the annual schools competition, just behind Dobby’s Trad...

For the week ending November 20, 2015 US markets led equities markets higher last week with the S&P 500 index up 3.27 per cent versus the S&P Global 1200, which was up 2.82 per cent — this despite terrorist attacks in Beirut, Paris and Mali. US indi...

Week ended November 13, 2015 Both the S&P Global 1200 and the S&P 500 (US) were lower last week — down 2.86 per cent and down 3.56 per cent respectively. For the S&P 500, this was the biggest drop since August. (For BIAS, the week before that was one...

Healthcare may be the most controversial sector of the global economy right now. Stocks in this industry have recently suffered broad price declines due largely to the actions of a couple of bad players, but that could spell opportunity for those wit...

Fundamentals rule this week particularly in healthcare. With 70 per cent of S&P 500 stocks having reported during this earnings season, all sectors have surprised with greater than expected earnings with the exception of financials. Revenues by secto...

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.” - John Greenleaf Whittier October 21 was Back to the Future day. This was the day that Marty McFly travelled to from 1985 in the second Back to the Future movie. A lot o...

Week ended October 23, 2015 Global markets were driven by three factors last week: • US dollar appreciation against other major currencies. • Reports of drug pricing manipulation by Valeant Pharmaceuticals. • Knockout earnings, particularly for the t...

When the global economy is riding high and credit problems are low, they are called ‘high yield bonds’ but when we hit a rough patch and defaults are on the rise, they are referred to simply as ‘junk bonds’. The class of lower grade, higher yieldin...

For the week beginning October 20, 2015. Two weeks into the fourth quarter 2015 and the S&P Global 1200 is up 6.5 per cent in US dollar terms. Although the US performed well (S&P 500 up 5.89 per cent), emerging Asian markets have performed best with ...