2020 was good for investors, will 2021 be even better?

2020 has been a terrible year for a number of reasons. But we all know that, so I won’t bore you with prolonging what some would argue is becoming a cliché.

But what I personally find very interesting in 2020 is how share markets have reacted to such a terrible year. You would think, with a still-raging global pandemic and all, that the markets might be subdued, perhaps ending the year far more muted and modest than where they began.

Cast your mind back to the recession-that-wasn’t of 2007-09, and you might remember the relative insignificance compared to the recession the country, and the world, is facing today. Australia was lucky enough to escape the global financial crisis with our record-breaking run of recession-free…