Key takeaways from the MoneyWeek Summit 2024: Investing in a dangerous world

If you couldn’t get a ticket to the MoneyWeek Wealth Summit, here are the highlights of what you missed.

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If you couldn’t get a ticket to MoneyWeek’s summit on 8 November, here’s an overview of what you missed. The theme was how to protect and grow your assets in a dangerous world. Andrew opened proceedings by noting that the outlook has rarely been so treacherous, yet rarely have markets seemed this buoyant. The S&P 500 has hit 50 record highs this year.

It may keep rising in the short term, juiced by the prospect of further tax cuts and deregulation under Trump 2.0. After that, the outlook becomes more complicated. If, as seems likely, he imposes tariffs, the likely subsequent fracturing of the global trading system implies higher inflation. Combined with lacklustre growth in the developed world, bar the US, that adds up to the stagflation MoneyWeek has been warning investors about for some time.

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