pa analysis the US has just gone bust
Investors are anxiously awaiting the deadline – 48 hours from now – for the US to raise the amount its government has to borrow as they will then know exactly what the debt ceiling will be raised to.
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BlackRock Emerging markets Europe energy stiocks
BlackRock’s Sam Vecht is looking to out of favour energy giant Gazprom to power his £111.1m Emerging Europe trust.
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City Financial Asia Macro
City Financial is to launch an Asian macro fund in the first quarter of 2014 to be managed by Geoffrey Barker in a joint venture with the group's Hong Kong subsidiary.
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emerging market summer sell off set to continue
There is room for a further sell-off of emerging market currencies, because countries with large external imbalances, such as Turkey, India, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia remain vulnerable to rising US yields.
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LandG dumps head structured products
Legal & General Investment’s head of structured solutions has paid the price for poor sales and been made redundant after 15 years with the firm.
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Taper tantrums and the Feds future
It's clear Janet Yellen faces challenges ahead at the Fed, on a personal level as well as professional one with commentators already looking to get a handle on who she is and what she stands for, and getting the nicknames ready.
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appreciate art do not invest in it
Investors are constantly on a hunt for assets that can improve the risk-adjusted return of their financial portfolios and in times when the economy is performing poorly, there is a demand for assets that have a low correlation with such traditional asset classes as stocks and bonds.
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Two out two top ten investment trusts revealed
During the summer months, investors have been researching investment trusts in greater detail, with the top-ten most sought-after trusts detailed on the following pages.
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Lyxor launches China A Shares ETF
Lyxor has launched an ETF offering exposure to China A Shares, while revealing steps to “complete” its range with frontier market trackers to be introduced next year.
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Time to dump the bond proxies
The IMF has this week trimmed its growth forecasts and warned of a “subdued” trajectory for the global economy, but that’s still unlikely to push investors back into the relative safe haven of bonds.
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double digit growth multi asset morgan stanley
After a 30-year bull market in bonds, the past three months have seen the first signs of tensions related to an ultimate end to QE.
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Risk targeted investors should not lose sight
A new breed of multi-manager/multi-asset funds are making waves in the retail market, but with the move to risk-targeted and risk-rated could investors be sacrificing upside return potential?