Ben Goldsmith would prefer investors wait until next year to assess performance on his thematic investment trust, Menhaden Capital, despite it reaching its three-year milestone in several weeks’ time.
The Financial Conduct Authority has told regulated firms to prepare for the UK to crash out of the European Union with a “no deal” Brexit.
Absolute return managers weigh in on how they are positioned for the potentially volatile fallout of a US trade war as Donald Trump announces tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods.
Intermediaries are being urged to focus on total returns as the low-yield environment pushes income portfolios into higher risk categories.
A takeover bid for the John Laing Infrastructure investment trust is set to reduce choice for investors in the closed-ended subsector.
From banning exit charges to drawing on the platform industry to tackle orphan clients, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined seven remedies to improve consumer outcomes.
St James’s Place (SJP), Neptune and Aviva Investors are among asset managers with $657.7m in three companies connected with US detention camps holding immigrants and their children.
Investment trusts could be hit if the government reverses UK corporate tax cuts scheduled for 2020 to fund extra spending on the National Health Service (NHS).
Nick Train has played down stretched price-to-earnings ratios on companies like Hargreaves Lansdown as he warns digital disruption could mean value investing is consigned to the last century.
Services have bolstered UK GDP growth less than a week after Prime Minister Theresa May outlines plans to pursue a Brexit trading relationship with the European Union focused on goods.
Neil Woodford has upped his stake in the soaring healthcare stock Hvivo in the weeks following positive results in a universal flu vaccine, offsetting selling pressure from IP Group, the intellectual property company in which he holds a stake.
The return of inflows into sterling strategic bond funds has raised concerns advisers are blindly allocating money into the sector without understanding it is not just a one-stop shop for outsourcing fixed income asset allocation.
