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An investment opportunity with unlimited upside potential, but with limited downside risk?

Significant tax reform

Political and market shocks

Number of factors to watch for

Amazon a key disruptor

The current stockmarket cycle, which began in the depths of despair in March 2009, is now the third longest in history.

In short measure, the UK has managed to hop, skip and (a referendum later) back itself in to the naughty corner of most global asset allocators' wish lists of places to invest.

After several years of extraordinary central bank intervention intended to provide monetary stimulus to ailing global economies, we are finally transitioning from quantitative easing (QE) to quantitative exit.

Equity markets worldwide keep nudging record highs despite political anxieties - nuclear explosions in North Korea, Brexit implosions in Europe and Trump outbursts in the US.

More risky than political problems