Wealth strategies update

Five charts on investing to keep in mind in uncertain times like now

Every so often the degree of uncertainty around investment markets surges and that’s been the case this year with President Trump’s tariffs. It’s gone into hyperdrive in the last week with Israel attacking Iran, Iran retaliating and now the US using its bunker busting bombs on Iran’s three “key nuclear enrichment facilities [that] have been completely and totally obliterated” according to Trump (although their obliteration is being questioned). While the loss of life in any war is horrible share markets only get really concerned if there is a meaningful economic disruption – and the main way this can occur from conflicts in the Middle East is via disruption to oil supplies. So far, oil prices are up on the uncertainty – but only by 12% since the war started & it’s still below average 2024 levels. Read more below.