Two years ago working from home was a rare luxury: something you might do as an occasional one-off or as you recovered from an illness. Then came the pandemic and suddenly WFH – it soon became an acronym – went mainstream. As the vaccine roll-out accelerated people gradually returned to the office – but there […]
We don’t want to sit behind screens anymore. According to a recent BBC article, ever-increasing numbers of us have reassessed our work and our lives post pandemic, and we want to work outside. Quoted in the article David Rochefort, a former IT worker, said the pandemic made him want to do something ‘astronomically different.’ “My […]
Overall Market Backdrop, December Equities had a bumpy ride in December, spearheaded by a multitude of factors driving markets, from monetary and fiscal policy transition to pandemic uncertainty. Even with there being an abundance of reasons for market volatility, markets came out reasonably well and even yields continued to rise; the US 10-Year treasury increased […]