Author: Geoff Candy

  • UK slips into deflation, but rate hike focus remains 2016

    UK slips into deflation, but rate hike focus remains 2016

    The UK slipped in to deflation in September, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday. But, while the number came in slightly lower than many economists had predicted, but many are more focused on how it is likely to change going forward.

  • Early morning calls and trading the extremes

    Early morning calls and trading the extremes

    Putting transparency first and focusing on the long term has served Vestra Wealth well, and in the low-return world to come, it is likely to continue to do so.

  • Global Equity Unconstrained Fund

    Global Equity Unconstrained Fund

    The fund aims to provide long term growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of global equity assets. The investment team will maintain a diverse asset mix at country, sector and stock level, with the regional, country and sector weightings within the portfolio being a by-product of the underlying stock exposure.

  • Global Smaller Companies Fund

    Global Smaller Companies Fund

    The fund aims to provide long term growth by investing predominantly in the shares of smaller companies listed on the global stock markets.

  • PA CONGRESS: Cable on Corbyn, Conservatives and the UK’s economic future

    PA CONGRESS: Cable on Corbyn, Conservatives and the UK’s economic future

    Sir Vince Cable, formerly secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills is of the view that the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the head of the Labour Party makes it virtually unelectable and will ultimately push the country to the right as the Conservatives strengthen their grip on power.

  • PA CONGRESS: Experts eyeing alternatives more closely

    PA CONGRESS: Experts eyeing alternatives more closely

    Harwood’s Richard Philbin, Brewin Dolphin’s Ben Gutteridge and TMI’s Andrew Herberts discuss how they are approaching their allocation to alternatives in the current environment.

  • PA CONGRESS: Allocation, alternatives and rising risk – 3 questions for Aviva's Fitzgerald

    PA CONGRESS: Allocation, alternatives and rising risk – 3 questions for Aviva’s Fitzgerald

    Aviva Investors head of multi-asset discusses the Fed’s new, external focus, the importance of alternatives and the appropriateness of the traditional model of asset allocation.

  • Odey, Parbrook buy in to restructured Turcan Connell Asset Management

    Odey, Parbrook buy in to restructured Turcan Connell Asset Management

    Turcan Connell Asset Management has announced a significant restructuring of its management and the entrance of some significant new investors.

  • PA CONGRESS 2015: EM opportunity all about lots of little bets

    PA CONGRESS 2015: EM opportunity all about lots of little bets

    Emerging markets currently face a wall of negative sentiment and some very real risks, but according to Josh Crabb, head of Asian equities at Old Mutual Global Investors, there are also some very real opportunities.

  • Jupiter sees net Q3 inflows but volatility weighs on AUM

    Jupiter sees net Q3 inflows but volatility weighs on AUM

    Jupiter reported overall net inflows of £77m for the third quarter of the year, it said on Monday.

  • PA ANALYSIS: The Fed: data-dependence or dithering indecision?

    PA ANALYSIS: The Fed: data-dependence or dithering indecision?

    The release yesterday of the minutes of the September meetings of both US FOMC and the Bank of England’s MPC came and went with very little pomp and circumstance.

  • LSE sells Russell Investments for £752m

    LSE sells Russell Investments for £752m

    The London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to sell Russell Investments to private equity firms TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners for $1.15bn (£752m) in cash.