This article is to help reader catch up on news for our “Select 15” model portfolio before our December edition.
We did not publish a November edition of our "Monthly Ranked Top Buys” newsletter, due to bad time management on my part. We are now writing the December edition and, to enable this to focus on events since November, we are publishing extracts from our client letters below as a recap of developments in the month before. The content below was written in early November and has intentionally been published without any changes.
Market Commentary
Equity markets worldwide fell again in October, with the S&P 500 entering a “correction”, having lost more than 10% from the peak in July. There has been a rally in November, with the S&P 500 regaining 4.1% as of market close on 6 November. I think the market is still more fearful than greedy at present, but I also see some near-term risks ahead. Our strategy has been working well this year, and Q3 results were mostly in line with our inve…