Where to put YOUR money in 2025: Our share guru reveals her best tips to boost returns
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Most investors make a New Year's resolution to revamp their portfolio. But, in 2025, an unusual amount of uncertainty surrounds this annual makeover. How will President-elect Donald Trump's plans for tariffs play out - in the US and around the globe?.
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Will new firms emerge to slow the ascent of the big tech firms that have been boosted by the generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolution?. John J Hardy, chief strategist at Saxo Bank, argues that 2025 will be a year of 'big questions' but it will also be a year of excitement.
'We're entering a new era,' he says. 'Old economic models are breaking, but that creates opportunities.'. What is the best way to make the most of these perplexing conditions?. Top markets: US was the best performer by a clear margin, with Germany runner up in 2024.
Be an optimist, says Mike Fox, head of equities at Royal London Asset Management. 'This is not to say that investments can only go up,' he adds. 'Clearly they do not in some years. But, over the long term, societies improve, economies grow, innovation thrives - and optimism wins.'.
If you like this way of thinking, here are the themes predicted to set the direction of the major stock markets in the months ahead. Donald Trump will be sworn in as US president on January 20, and thereafter embark on the implementation of policies that include the imposition of import tariffs and cutting the federal budget by $2tn (£1.6tn), with the help of Tesla boss Elon Musk.
