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Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series with Alan Don and I, Neil's Castle Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global market

through the lens of a rules-based investor. Alan, great to be back with you this week. How are you doing?

And more importantly, has Dublin recovered after St. Patrick's Day?

Yeah, it has. Yeah, it was pretty quite a weekend. We had success in the rugby. That was the main highlight. So we are the six nations champions but yeah we're well back to normal

here by now and and I know you and I spoke actually yesterday and you said that

you had snow early in March that's quite unusual we did we had snow all winter

and then on the 1st of March at least a couple of inches fell on that morning.

But now today, lovely sunshine here, so it definitely feels like spring is certainly in the air.

I can tell you that Switzerland today really feels almost like summer.

It is very nice, I have to say.

Anyways, we have a few topics that you kindly brought along, so there'll be interesting to dive into.

We don't have any questions, but as we always do, we start off with hearing a little bit of what's been on your radar recently or since we last spoke.

What's catching your attention at the moment?

Well, it's been a very interesting week in the last week.

We've had the monumental ending of ZERP in Japan, which was obviously long-held it,

but I suppose it is certainly a noteworthy historical event.

But then, just as interestingly, in the week where

the Bank of Japan raises rates, the Swiss National Bank went in cut rates. So, I mean, and the Fed were on hold.

So we had the full spectrum of actions from central bank. So I think it really does highlight

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