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Market Comment - September '23

September 2023

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

It’s two years since the peak in the UK small cap and mid cap indices. Both fell in excess of 30%, to the October 2022 low and are still down nearly 25%. There has certainly been money to be made in this stock pickers market since the Autumn but the broader trend represented by these two UK indices has gone nowhere since the excitement of January.   This isn’t simply a UK problem, though some would have you believe that is so. For example, US and European smaller companies have endured the same directionless seven months.   The well known exception is the US indices driven by just seven extraordinary tech stocks, global mega caps as far away from small as you can get.  Less well understood is that the trend in Asian small c ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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