Markets and Economy

Globalisation is in reverse, and for investors a more fractured world means stickier inflation, weaker trade flows and greater risk of capital misallocation. David Murray sets out how SWAN Wealth Management responds: favouring lower-risk real assets that meet basic human needs, backing resilient balance sheets, and investing alongside partners with proven records and skin in the game.

Would you still own it without a market price? In public markets liquidity creates the illusion of control, while in private markets its absence imposes discipline. Steven Nathan on why illiquidity forces a longer term view, strips out the noise, and creates the inefficiencies that patient investors in private assets are paid to exploit.

Modern life crowds out patience, and that is anathema to sustainably successful investing. Why constant activity feels productive, why “time is money” misreads the cost of doing nothing, and why patience remains the most reliable and least practised virtue in building long term wealth.