Seaspray Private’s 2023 Half-Year Investment Review & Outlook reflects on a period of significant market shifts and emerging opportunities. In the face of global economic challenges, this review explores key trends shaping the first half of the year while providing strategic insights for the months ahead. Our dedicated approach continues to focus on identifying resilient sectors and crafting solutions. This is to meet the evolving needs of our clients in an ever-changing investment landscape.
2023 Half-Year Investment Review & Outlook
Financial markets have had a much stronger first half of the year, after what was without a doubt a difficult 2022. US and European equities each saw a H1 rally of circa 16%. Meaning 2023 so far has largely been a mirror image of last year with regard to the asset class. This positivity comes despite ongoing challenges from inflation, interest rate hikes, slowing global growth, a banking mini-crisis, an ongoing war in Ukraine, and debt-ceiling issues in the US. Headline inflation continued to decline over the first half of the year, which is encouraging. However, core inflation is looking stickier than feared and has led bond markets to weaken recently.
Despite investors recently pricing in higher rates for longer. US stocks have officially joined their European counterparts and have entered bull market territory. As the S&P 500 index rebounded by 20% from its October lows, with sentiment broadly higher as a result. The increase has broadly been driven by optimism surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and stronger-than-expected economic strength in the United States.
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