Author: Geoff Candy

  • Successful AIM listing adds £8.7m to Harwood Wealth war chest

    Successful AIM listing adds £8.7m to Harwood Wealth war chest

    Harwood Wealth has listed on Aim with an initial market capitalisation of £45m.

  • The freedom to perform

    The freedom to perform

    Equity investors want to have their cake and eat it, demanding ever-more sophistication from an increasingly selective list of funds, which gives unconstrained investing greater prominence in their hunt for the best possible risk-adjusted returns.

  • Up close and personal

    Up close and personal

    The global universe of equity stocks was once thought to be too vast to research properly – but it is more easily accessible today.

  • Wealth manager profile: Mediolanum’s Brian O’Rourke

    Wealth manager profile: Mediolanum’s Brian O’Rourke

    As head of Mediolanum’s multi-manager division, Brian O’Rourke and his team are focused on finding alternative sources of income to meet the needs of their varied, mostly Italian, clients.

  • PA ANALYSIS: Now is not the time for value ‘cold feet’

    PA ANALYSIS: Now is not the time for value ‘cold feet’

    It is always darkest before the dawn. It is the sort of cliché that gets used only when one is tired, when there really isn’t much left to be said. Which, I would hazard to guess, is how a lot of value investors are currently feeling.

  • Your last chance to have your say on PA

    Your last chance to have your say on PA

    Portfolio Adviser needs your thoughts. Share your voice and be entered into our prize draw by completing Portfolio Adviser’s Annual Readership Survey today. There are just three days left to be one of our lucky winners.

  • PA ANALYSIS: Will Draghi ever be able to do enough?

    PA ANALYSIS: Will Draghi ever be able to do enough?

    The ECB’s latest salvo in the fight against the prospect of deflation was initially met positively by markets. But, a lack of a clear message that the Bank will cut rates further from here sent markets falling again almost as quickly.

  • PA Expert Insight: Negative rates not the end of Japan’s policy road

    PA Expert Insight: Negative rates not the end of Japan’s policy road

    Since the Bank of Japan surprised markets at the end of January by moving the country’s rates below the zero bound, there has been a lot of speculation about the longer term implications of the move.

  • Investor fears see gold  return to top traded funds list

    Investor fears see gold return to top traded funds list

    The BlackRock Gold and General Fund has returned to the list of top traded funds on the Share Centre.

  • Regulation, ISAs drive strong growth in SEI Wealth Platform flows

    Regulation, ISAs drive strong growth in SEI Wealth Platform flows

    SEI’s UK private banking business reported a 30% jump in net flows through its wealth platform in 2015, the firm said on Thursday.

  • Unpicking five current market conundrums

    Unpicking five current market conundrums

    Jason Stather-Lodge, CEO at OCM Wealth Management unpicks five pieces of economic data that have left many investors scratching their heads.

  • ETF trading volumes hit all-time record in Feb – LSE

    ETF trading volumes hit all-time record in Feb – LSE

    ETF trading volumes on the London Stock Exchange hit a record in February of £6.8bn value traded, the exchange said on Tuesday.