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Today's market falls in the context of history

Context is an important tool when it comes to investing. All investors around the world will be feeling the emotional pressures of the recent rapid equity market falls, either because they can remember previous falls and times of uncertainty, such as the Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009), or as younger investors, they have not yet experienced material market falls.

AcuityINSIGHT: Leverage: not without riskLeverage, often referred to in investing as a ‘double-edged sword’, is another word for borrowing money to own more of an asset. In this issue we take a brief look at why our default approach is to invest in unlevered long-only strategies.

AcuityINSIGHT: The dilemma of trying to do the right thingIn this issue of Insight we take a look at the difficulties in what on the surface may seem like positive personal lifestyle changes, and see that complex problems rarely have simple, binary choices.

AcuityINSIGHT: Lessons from the last yearAs an investor one is always learning. In the past twelve months, we have been reminded of some useful lessons that can – hopefully – make us all better investors. In this issue we take a look at several key lessons which stand out for us.

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