Small is beautiful

clock

Pippa Malmgren believes many of the best opportunities over the next few years will be off your Bloomberg screen, as in 2002-03

The current market environment reminds me of 2002-03. At that time, the markets were fully digesting the extensive bad news about the bankruptcies of firms like Enron. No one imagined seven of the nine largest bankruptcies in American history would occur in a 12-month period. Following on the heels of the dot.com bubble and the tech wreck, the general view was there was nothing left to invest in and no more technological innovation to come. Investors had no hope of a better market in future. They were wrong then just as doubtful investors are wrong now. Here are some reasons why. Mo...

To continue reading this article...

Join Investment Week for free

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the investment industry, including the Sustainable Hub covering fund news from the ESG space
  • Get ahead of regulatory and technological changes affecting fund management
  • Important and breaking news stories selected by the editors delivered straight to your inbox each day
  • Weekly members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from leading industry experts
  • Be the first to hear about our extensive events schedule and awards programmes

Join now

 

Already an Investment Week
member?

Login

More on Equities

Deep Dive: US equities may not have peaked but do require greater selectivity

Deep Dive: US equities may not have peaked but do require greater selectivity

Amid equity rebalancing

Linus Uhlig
clock 13 June 2025 • 4 min read
Partner Insight: Robeco Emerging Markets Equities strategy - Targeting alpha in a new world of growth

Partner Insight: Robeco Emerging Markets Equities strategy - Targeting alpha in a new world of growth

Jan de Bruijn, Director, Emerging Market Equities, Robeco
clock 06 June 2025 • 5 min read
Nedgroup Investments' Rob Burdett: It is time to move underweight equities

Nedgroup Investments' Rob Burdett: It is time to move underweight equities

Reducing exposure

Rob Burdett
clock 03 June 2025 • 2 min read
Trustpilot