InPerspective - Volume 1

Happy New Year and welcome to the January 2010 edition of inPerspective, Newton's newsletter for the UK institutional market.

At the end of a particularly eventful decade, it was only fitting that equity markets should continue to be fortified in the final quarter of 2009 by the ultra-loose policies of the world's leading central banks. During the decade, monetary policymakers cut interest rates aggressively at times to tackle successive economic and financial crises and they provided relief to most investors in doing so.