Investment

  • Emergency measures have become the norm

    Emergency measures have become the norm

    The Bank rate was dropped to 0.5% five years ago as a rescue operation - it now seems normal

  • Global ETP sales breach 2trn in Feb

    Global ETP sales breach 2trn in Feb

    Sales of exchange-traded funds and products reached a record high of $2.44trn in February.

  • bonus rules uncerctainty reported

    bonus rules uncerctainty reported

    A requirement that managers of UCITS funds take at least 50% of their bonuses in the funds they oversee has created uncertainty in Europe’s asset management industry, though some say the matter has been overblown.

  • Allianz GIs Yu Still betting on Macau

    Allianz GIs Yu Still betting on Macau

    Allianz’ emerging markets manager Lu Yu says secular growth story is dead but Macau casinos will move higher

  • no brains behind no brainer buying renminbi

    no brains behind no brainer buying renminbi

    Teresa Kong argues that the recent moves in Chinese currency markets are not just a healthy thing to see but necessary for an economy looking to increase the role of the market in allocating resources.

  • Top five ways to strike gold

    Top five ways to strike gold

    The lure of gold is as ancient as Greek mythology itself, but not always has this commodity given investors the Midas touch.

  • Long short fixed income in a challenging 2014

    Long short fixed income in a challenging 2014

    Ryan Hughes argues the case for long/short rather than long only strategies being the only way to play fixed interest in what will be a challenging 2014 for the asset class.

  • JPM makes changes to EM equity team

    JPM makes changes to EM equity team

    JPM Brazil fund manager Sebastian Luparia will be handing the portfolio to Sophie Bosch de Hood as he takes on a new role in the emerging market equity team.

  • Dennehy on ways to find more growth

    Dennehy on ways to find more growth

    Investors clearly want more growth but they shouldn’t assume going cheap will deliver it.

  • International business drives LGIM inflows

    International business drives LGIM inflows

    While international business saw inflows spike, the UK division of LGIM posted net outflows.

  • One quarter of i ts deliver dividend rises

    One quarter of i ts deliver dividend rises

    The AIC has reported that 24% of its long-term members have increased dividends consistently in each of the past 10 years, including Foreign & Colonial, Witan and Scottish Investment Trust.

  • PA ANALYSIS Crimea river of energy winners

    PA ANALYSIS Crimea river of energy winners

    The prospect of war in the Crimea is bringing out the best in the doomsayer national news headline writers while the more astute financial publications look straight through them in search of the investment winners and dump the losers.