Demand for silver skyrocketed this week, off the
back of the latest campaign from Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets
group. Investors may wonder what’s
beyond the frenzy and whether the Reddit
campaign has unexpected substance to it.
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The Reddit Story
Following a bid to counter short-selling of
GameStop, r/wallstreetbets turned its collective
eyes to silver. With the claim from some
segments within the Reddit group that silver
prices were being held artificially low by bank and
hedge fund manipulation and short-selling,
amateur investors piled in to purchase silver ETFs
and mining companies in a bid to push prices up.
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Investors may be feeling a cautious sense of optimism as we enter 2021 with global vaccine rollouts. Last year, technology companies and commodities were investment winners, so what will 2021 hold for investment markets?
There are three trends we see influencing ETF investments in 2021: the movement to value, thematic investing and short & leveraged investing.
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Movement to value
As news of vaccines hit markets in late 2020, investors started to shift their approach away from a pure growth focus and towards value investments such as banks and industrials.
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