April was a quiet month on the financial markets. Government bond yields barely moved, with the exception of upturns in yields on bonds at the extremely short end of the yield curve in the US and more generally in the UK. The higher yields in the UK were mainly a normalisation following the downturns in March.
Please see Kempen’s Asset Allocation Outlook for May. The highlights this month are:
There’s a saying in Dutch, Kom verder, it means many things and it’s our business philosophy. It captures the way we work with clients but also the way we steer our investee companies to deliver shareholder value through active engagement.
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