Author: Portfolio Adviser

  • RBS fined 56m over IT failures

    RBS fined 56m over IT failures

    Regulators in the UK have fined Royal Bank of Scotland £56m for IT failures which meant customers of three of the groups banks were unable to access banking services.

  • Rethinking frontier markets

    Rethinking frontier markets

    According to City Asset Managements Thomas Watt, low volatility is just one reason to consider an investment in frontier markets.

  • Richard Titherington EM comment

    Richard Titherington EM comment

    Richard Titherington, chief investment officer for emerging market equities at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, outlines three catalysts for sustainable performance recovery in emerging markets.

  • Japanese stocks still showing good value

    Japanese stocks still showing good value

    Despite the slip into technical recession, Hargreaves Lansdown’s Richard Troue argues that the stock market continues to show good value

  • Chase de Vere fined 560k for Keydata sale failings

    Chase de Vere fined 560k for Keydata sale failings

    Chase de Vere Independent Financial Advisers has been hit with a fine of £560,000 for misleading customers in the sale of Keydata products.

  • Six Euro stocks to likely to shine

    Six Euro stocks to likely to shine

    Hermes Sourcecap discusses three themes it still likes within the European sector and the six stocks it has added to within them.

  • Asian markets resilient to US rate hike

    Asian markets resilient to US rate hike

    While global investors deliberate on pulling capital out of riskier emerging markets in the run up to a US rate hike, Aberdeen Asset Management is confident that Asian markets will prove resilient.

  • FATCA is a fungus

    FATCA is a fungus

    Dalila Ver Elst, senior compliance officer at consultancy firm Maitland, looks at the effects of FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard on transparency around the globe.

  • Just how scary will a rise in US interest rates be

    Just how scary will a rise in US interest rates be

    Investec’s Max King, discusses whether or not investors should be concerned about the prospect of an increase in US interest rates.

  • Should investors fear rising dollar

    Should investors fear rising dollar

    JP Morgan Asset Management’s Stephanie Flanders and Alex Dryden on implications of a stronger dollar that investors should be wary of

  • Signs recovery post-October

    Signs recovery post-October

    Alec Harper, client portfolio manager at AXA Rosenberg, on how investors have a new-found understanding of the saying: October is the cruelest month

  • Stronger US growth - Kernohan

    Stronger US growth – Kernohan

    Royal London Asset Management economist Ian Kernohan discusses why US economic growth will continue to accelerate.