Deep Dive: How 2025 rewrote the market playbook

A year of surprises

Maria Nicholls
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The past 12 months have exposed a series of "fundamental shifts" in conventional investing wisdom, with long-held assumptions about inflation, safe havens and equity returns challenged, according to experts.

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