The World Economic Forum thinks 2025 will be a year of recovery following a challenging, high-interest-rate environment that has required an increasingly strategic approach to investing. WEF outlined six reasons for its optimism.
At the top of the list is an emerging buy cycle. WEF referenced a Hines Research report that found two-thirds of global markets were in some phase of a buying cycle, as of Q3 2024. That is the highest level since 2016 and mirrors the early years of the post-global financial crisis recovery and the mid-1990s when the US emerged from the savings and loans crisis, said WEF.
“While both periods had challenges, they were excellent vintages to put money to work,” said WEF.
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