Will 2015 be as reassuringly dull?

The past year has seen positive, but unexciting returns for most investments – plus the odd shock such as the oil price collapse. Should we expect more of the same in 2015?

The past year has seen positive, but unexciting returns for most investments plus the odd shock such as the oil price collapse. Should we expect more of the same?

It may not have felt that way all the time, but 2014 was a fairly boring year. From 1 January to 19 December, virtually every major asset class has gone up in value. Some commentators will tell you that this is unprecedented and must be the result of quantitative easing, but it happens from time to time when market turbulence is low.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.