Investment outlook 2024

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Category: INVESTMENT IDEAS 2023

What could investors expect in 2024?

This article isn’t personal advice. If you’re not sure whether an investment is right for you please seek advice. If you choose to invest the value of your investment will rise and fall, so you could get back less than you put in.

No-one has a crystal ball as to what 2024 will hold. But that hasn’t stopped our analysts looking to the future. They reflect on:

Jason Roberts, Senior Investment Writer

Looking back at 2023, it’s been a period of drift for global stock markets. A surprise rally in November brought the US’s flagship S&P 500 index close to its July high, however, it’s been a period of sideways moving markets, with little to buoy investor sentiment.

Many investors hamstrung by uncertainty alongside the promise of stock market recovery adopted a barbell approach – either choosing the perceived safety of money market funds that invest in cash, cash equivalents, and high quality short-term government debt, or piling on more risk and opting for a technology fund.

We saw the cost-of-living crisis continue to loom over us all and inflation, while falling, is still higher than we’d all want. And most importantly, we’ve faced even greater global uncertainty from the terrible atrocities ongoing in Gaza and Ukraine.

For now, the jury is still out on whether next year turns out to