Investments how to invest in the current economic climate

Investments - How to Invest in the Current Economic Climate

What happens next? That is the question most Investors are asking in light of the continuation of economic uncertainty on a global scale. Every day news broadcasts are filled with stories of governments so debtladen as to be nearing total collapse, unemployment rising, collapsing banks, massive monetary bailouts, recession and the prospect of more quantitative easing pushing up inflation to potentially unlivable levels.

So where on earth do you look to find decent returns whilst managing the risk to capital that currently defines traditional financial market investments?

Well there are of course opportunities for those holding hard cash to capture profits and benefit financially from prevailing market conditions. Those in the know are picking up cash-generating assets at knockdown prices from debt-laden distressed sellers keen to rid their balance sheets of 'toxic' assets in exchange for liquid capital.

Other are choosing to align David Pulman GSK investment strategies with basic socio-economic and demographic trends, acquiring productive natural resource assets likely to remain in high demand as the global population creaks its way toward potentially unsustainable levels.

Certainly in the current climate, there is some wisdom to holding income generating assets and simply waiting out the on-going debacle, no matter how illiquid they might be in the short term. And of course owning tangible, physical property assets is unlikely to cause a total capital loss over the mid-to long-term, whilst owing assets that produce commodities essential to the human function such as food, energy or other raw materials all but guarantees a consistent stream of future income and makes for a solid long-term store of wealth.