Debating the traps of a Chinese bear market
With Chinese stocks having officially entered bear territory earlier this week, industry experts are divided on which neck of the woods the market will end up in.
With Chinese stocks having officially entered bear territory earlier this week, industry experts are divided on which neck of the woods the market will end up in.
Mixed messages on the health of the United Kingdom’s economy are making deciding on a UK equities weighting a particularly tricky task right now.
Greece’s possible default and exit from the Eurozone will not undermine Europe’s economic recovery, some fund houses say.
Investors should not be surprised by Chinese shares dropping 7% in a day say industry experts, but is it a cause for concern?
The Fed is going to have to raise rates and do so this year, says Andrew Warwick, portfolio manager in the BlackRock, multi-asset strategies group, but it will move very cautiously.
The ‘slow and gradual’ UK interest rate outlined by the Bank of England will be too little, too late, according to Brooks Macdonald’s Toby Thompson.
John Clougherty, head of UK retail at Fidelity Worldwide Investment discusses how technology is changing the wealth management space, the rise of robo-advice and what he thinks the financial services sector is likely to look like in five years.
Investors dreading emerging market corporates being hit by a US interest rate rise are not living in the real world, according Ashmore Investment Management’s Jan Dehn.
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.
As Greece is heading for a default, which would significantly increase the possibility for the country to be forced out of the eurozone, markets have plummeted.
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.
Turkey and Russia pose the biggest threats to long-term emerging market returns, according to Pictet Asset Management’s Luca Paolini.