Japanese rally will not be sustained unless risk aversion reduced
The recent rally in Japanese equities will only be sustained if corporate Japan cuts back on its risk aversion, according to economics consultancy Fathom Consulting.
The recent rally in Japanese equities will only be sustained if corporate Japan cuts back on its risk aversion, according to economics consultancy Fathom Consulting.
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Fitch Ratings has said a gradual hike in the United States’ base interest rate would likely result in lower profits and slower growth, due to increased borrowing costs for US companies.
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Some segments are trading at 80-100 times price-to-earnings and there are “signs of exuberance” in the domestic market, said Andrew Swan, BlackRock’s head of Asian equities.
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This week’s Head-to-Head is a battle of the true heavyweights in UK equity income investing, Neil Woodford versus Adrian Frost and Adrian Gosden.
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Increasingly nervous fund managers are swiftly pulling money out of equities funds in favour of cash, according to June’s Bank of America Merrill Lynch fund manager survey.
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Investors need to moderate their return expectations from European equity markets due to high valuations, according to JP Morgan Asset Management.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has warned that bond markets are ‘starting to crack’ following the largest weekly outflows from the asset class in 18 months.
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Thesis Asset Management has launched a UK equities only model portfolio, initially available via the Fusion Wealth Platform.
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European equities are the asset class of choice for wealth managers in the second half of this year, with US exposure to be cut, according to delegates at Portfolio Adviser’s Summer Congress 2015.
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With the United States’ equities bull-run into its sixth year and valuations looking pretty much up to the brim, investor sentiment has steadily shifted more in favour of European stocks – but should investors really make big cuts to their US allocation?
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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group has launched the Japan Quality Growth Fund, in response to ‘overwhelming investor appetite’ for the JPX-Nikkei 400 index.
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This week’s Head-to-Head gallery pits Lazard Global Equity Income against Artemis Global Income.
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