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Explore our 2025 Investment Outlook

Joe McDonnell, Chief Investment Officer

At Border to Coast, we believe the big ‘top-down’ issues should be debated and examined to understand how they could affect capital allocation decisions of our Partner Funds. We see our thinking here as complementary to our primary focus – bottom-up stock selection and investment due-diligence.

LGPS Partner Funds are long-term investors with a strategic emphasis on growth and income strategies so we explore how these common themes will playout across both public and private markets.  High level questions we look to tackle include: Will AI continue to dominate? How will this theme develop in both listed and private markets? How will credit fare and what parts of the market are attractive? Will the growing demand for energy continue to underpin clean energy demand? And will the new UK government policy initiatives be a tail wind for energy and housing?

In a series of Investment Outlooks, our Portfolio Managers and Strategists examine each of these questions, and identify some of the key considerations for investors in 2025.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for the full series of articles, or click to download the outlook as a PDF.

Download our Investment Outlook 2025
As investors, we were somewhat spoiled in 2024. Markets rose as inflation fell, and global economies breathed a sigh of collective relief as the risk of global recession faded. Looking ahead, central banks have started cutting policy rates that can further support global growth and corporate profitability. But, will this relative steadiness last throughout 2025? We suspect not. With a new (but also returning) President in the White House, we are stepping into a known unknown.
Anthony Petalas, Portfolio Manager

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