Olympian test – Weekly update by St. James’s Place Wealth Management

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The path to global economic recovery was always going to be far from straightforward. With a phenomenal year for developed market equities behind them, investors approached 2014 with confidence of further gains – if not at the pace enjoyed in 2013 – and a steady improvement for the world’s leading economies. But for the last month this optimism for global growth has been tested. The US Federal Reserve’s move to start to unwind its asset-purchase scheme has exposed the fragile financial condition of a number of nations in the emerging markets. A spate of unexpectedly weak US economic data and further evidence of a slowdown of China’s economy have stirred unease too. And fears of deflation linger over the eurozone and…

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