Darius McDermott: Five funds for an unpredictable 2022

'Wth uncertainty comes opportunity'

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Unpredictable and uncertain seem to be the buzzwords of 2022 and it's still only January. Here Darius McDermott highlights five funds advisers should consider while navigating unrelentingly choppy investment waters...

The era of predictable unpredictability is not going to go away. That was the headline of a recent article I read surmising the pandemic era we are now living in. The truth is, that is exactly how I feel about 2022. It's almost impossible to make an educated guess about the outlook because growth, jobs and inflation are all tied heavily to the threat of the pandemic. For example, in October 2021, the International Monetary Fund predicted global growth of 4.9% this year (vs. 5.9% in 2021), then Omicron hit and things changed fast. But with uncertainty comes opportunity, and a c...

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