Investment

  • China investors set to profit from mega reform

    China investors set to profit from mega reform

    China is days away from massive financial reform with stocks linked to areas receiving government support set to boom in 2014, according to Mirabaud’s emerging markets head Daniel Tubbs.

  • uk fund charges among highest

    uk fund charges among highest

    Investors in Luxembourg and UK domiciled funds pay some of the highest ongoing fund charges in Europe, according to research from Morningstar Denmark.

  • wake-up call needed as fiscal fatigue hits

    wake-up call needed as fiscal fatigue hits

    There are increasing signs that politicians are experiencing fiscal fatigue. However, government finances continue to deteriorate as debt rises relative to national income.

  • absolute return neuberger berman

    absolute return neuberger berman

    Neuberger Berman has launched a multi-manager Ucits fund targeting an absolute return, replicating a similar strategy run in the US for the past 18 months.

  • Tulloch and Lau Asia can capitalise on weaknesses

    Tulloch and Lau Asia can capitalise on weaknesses

    Asian leaders should use the current slowdown to push through some much-needed structural reforms, First State’s Angus Tulloch and Martin Lau have said, arguing that turning weakness to their advantage will boost growth over the longer term.

  • Is retail property ripe for a boom

    Is retail property ripe for a boom

    With the property sector posting its strongest quarterly returns in three years and retail sales and wages on the up, are the foundations being laid for a retail property boom?

  • high yield support convertibles

    high yield support convertibles

    In a reversal of fortune, economic headwinds are triumphing over increasingly popular high yield bonds as investors ready themselves for a rising interest rate environment.

  • Schroder Income and Growth rejigs exposure

    Schroder Income and Growth rejigs exposure

    Schroder Income Growth trust manager Sue Noffke has been reducing her exposure to large cap defensives in favour of undervalued mid cap names.

  • Investors should prowl Tiger for alpha not beta

    Investors should prowl Tiger for alpha not beta

    What's in store for China after the disappointments of 2013?

  • Positivity around Europe hits six year high

    Positivity around Europe hits six year high

    Sentiment towards European equities has reached a six-year high, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for October.

  • Gold Tumbling like it is 1982

    Gold Tumbling like it is 1982

    Gold has had torrid time of late, but is it about to change?

  • global best emerging markets

    global best emerging markets

    Emerging market equities have been suffering from investorss’ sell-off mindset for several months but where to next? Stay put or look elsewhere?