There isn't much scope for wacky predictions and left-of-field forecasts in the conservative world of wealth management.

But once a year in the "silly season" of December and January, chief investment offices are allowed to let their hair down a little, and take a look at what could be possible in the coming months and years ahead.

And so it is that eminently sensible wealth manager Kleinwort Hambros has cast aside consensus-tinged forecasts and released its annual list of market changing events that are improbable, but not impossible, in the year ahead.

These “Tails of the Unexpected”, named for ...