The Rules of Investing: The virus that affects all assets

When a young Charlie Jamieson arrived at work in London on September 11th, 2001, little did he know how much that day would affect his views on markets. At the time, he was trading US Dollar bonds from Merrill Lynch’s London office, having just left the New York office three weeks earlier. It was a harrowing time, but it wouldn’t be the last time that he faced a major catastrophe as an investor. Years later, he found himself managing Euro portfolios throughout the GFC and the Euro Crisis. While many investors would remember the equity sell-offs that follow, these crises were often centred around debt markets. But it’s not just times of crisis that rates matter, in the full podcast, Charlie explains why interest rates are the virus that affects all assets.