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Sky TV's Rights Negotiation goes into Extra Time

Price increases are never welcome but sometimes, on rare occasions, we can soften that blow by offsetting ourselves in the market. For instance, accepting a 12-14% insurance premium increase from your insurer Tower is a lot easier to digest when your Tower shares return over 120% in the same year. For the good of the shareholders, you start to say…

Mon, Apr 28th 2025 12:19PM

Passive Investing is Impassive on Valuation

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Credit where credit’s due

5 min read

Strategic versus Tactical Allocation

5 min read

A bit of volatility

Why so volatile?

4 min read

Election Cycles and Investment returns

This year, over 4 billion people are voting to shape their country’s political and economic outlook for the next three to five years. From India to France, Mexico to the UK numerous general elections are taking place.

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US Equities – simply momentum or something more fundamental

The momentum run in the US market continues to be very strong. It resembles in many ways the peak rally in 1999 to early 2000, just before the “dot com” crash.

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US Equities – simply momentum or something more fundamental

Stock picking: deciphering what’s signal and what’s noise

Investment markets are forward looking.

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Stock picking: deciphering what’s signal and what’s noise

Building active portfolios, building conviction levels

Octagon looks to enhance the returns for our customers by being an active manager in the markets we invest in. This means, by definition and style, we are not passive investors who simply buy the index or the sector, rather we apply a disciplined process that allows the Octagon portfolio managers to identify when and why an asset is mispriced, and take advantage for our clients.

5 min read

Building active portfolios, building conviction levels

Active versus Passive Investment Management

Octagon Asset Management (Octagon) as an active investment manager and we aim to deliver superior investment returns by being active (as opposed to passive).

5 min read

Active versus Passive Investment Management

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