Close followers of our blog will have noticed that the title of this post is merely a historical "market review" and certainly not a "market update" or even a "market outlook" which you read about so often in January of every given year, insinuating that the respective author really does possess predictive abilities concerning future market movements.
Our esteemed regular follower will have learned from our previous posts, that academic research proves that forward-looking activities like market timing and stock picking should not be an endeavor to be undertaken by investors, since such behaviour always comes to the detriment of the investor's portfolio returns by enriching the broker/fund manager unnecessarily.
Hence, a backward looking historical review of this past quarter is an academically more honest approach. Enjoy our Q4 2017 market review by clicking HERE!