Remove 'risk' from portfolios

Chris Watling | Longview Economics | 13 November 2012

Having been long risk since early June and having remained (modestly) overweight equities at the start of this month, given the US election outcome and price action and related growing global economic concerns, we recommend removing risk positions from short-term portfolios. In particular, the outlook for the global economy is fraught with risk and uncertainties. Growth drivers of the global economy are increasingly absent (or, at the very...