Following the global financial crisis, interest rates and bond yields saw investors broaden their demand for income by increasingly turning to equities – yet these same investors are reticent to broaden their equity search beyond their domestic market.
If the financial services community needed any further evidence of the sea change currently underway, a quick scan of Monday’s headlines should have done the trick.
Negative interest rate policy could lead to structurally higher demand for gold from both central banks and investors, the World Gold Council has said.
Q1 2016 was one of the UK manufacturing sector’s weakest performances of the past three years, Markit reported on Friday.
Like Janet Yellen’s Federal Reserve, it would appear that UK wealth managers are planning to be very data dependent in the second quarter.
Financial markets have undergone substantial changes as a result of regulatory shifts, but according to Pimco’s global head of portfolio risk management, William de Leon, much of the volatility currently in evidence has more to do with central-bank induced uncertainty than illiquidity.
Outflows from open-ended funds in Europe continued apace in February, the latest data from Morningstar reveals.
Royal London’s consumer offerings have risen 385% compared with the prior year, according to the group’s annual results.
Hargreaves Lansdown CIO, Lee Gardhouse pinning his hopes for success in the high income space on “serious investment talent”.
Mark Mobius will step back from day-to-day management of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group in mid-April as Franklin Templeton brings its two emerging markets teams under one umbrella.
Returning to work after a two and half week holiday always involves a little bit of trepidation: What have I missed, how much email will be lying in wait, do I really have to go back to school?
Jonathan Miller is to replace Jeremy Beckwith as head of Morningstar’s UK manager research team, the firm announced on Tuesday.
