19th February 2018

Investec Wealth & Investment: Taking Stock Weekly Digest

Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy.

In this week’s Weekly Digest, our Head of Investment Strategy, John Wyn-Evans looks at the rise and fall of the MSCI All Countries World Index.

"The MSCI All Countries World Index (in US dollars) is up almost 2% since the end of last year. Of course, those of us who have lived every minute of it will know that it was up more than 7% at its peak towards the end of January, and then fell 9% in little more than a week before recovering."

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