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Defanging the FANGMAN

Market Ethos.
31 October 2022

2022 has not been a fun year to be an investor, an advisor, and – most definitively from personal experience – a portfolio manager. Inflation remains the market’s biggest angst, there is a potential recession of sorts on the horizon, and equity indexes are already well into a bear market. Below are our two scenarios on how things could end; think of it like a ‘choose your own adventure’ book:

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