Themes to bank on in 2021
Investors face a two-tier market containing both very expensive and some reasonably valued opportunities. This is a time for caution and research.
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The latest IPO and tech company might be exciting, but there are more important themes investors should be paying attention to in 2021.
The dire predictions of 2020 that house prices would collapse, credit growth would fall by 8 per cent and unemployment would reach levels not seen since the 1990s recession did not eventuate.
Instead, Roger Montgomery, chief executive of Montgomery Investments, expects house prices to rise. “Investors should know that the single most important driver for short- and medium-term property prices is credit availability.”
7 famous companies that originally had different names
BACKRUB // GOOGLE
Google has its origins in BackRub , a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University.
By 1997, the Google co-founders decided that the BackRub name just wasn’t good enough and came up with Googol, during a brainstorming session.
Googol is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes, while googolplex is 1 followed by googol zeros.
BRAD’S DRINK // PEPSI
Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad s Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961.