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.
Investment
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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?
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mandg recruits emd Invesco
M&G Investments has hired former Invesco emerging markets debt expert Claudia Calich to its retail fixed income team, reporting to Jim Leaviss, head of retail fixed interest.
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Daily dealing limits property funds
Last night I joined the (fifth of a) mile-high club courtesy of a trip up The Shard. Yes, a primary rule of financial hackery states the higher the FTSE, the loftier the shindig.
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smith maxwell property jupiter merlin
Jupiter’s Algy Smith-Maxwell is holding his interest in the property sector but has yet to find a buying opportunity in the asset class.
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property benefits from reduced bond upside
As property is starting to grab investors' attention once again here is a comparison of an open-ended route into the asset class (through the SWIP Property Trust) and a closed-ended equivalent (Picton Property Income).
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is tech pick iphone blackberry
An interesting juxtaposition last week as Apple announced the runaway success of its new iPhone5 models, while Blackberry informed investors it is in discussions with a consortium led by Fairfax Financial regarding a possible sale.
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currency affairs
As sterling continues its slide towards three-year lows against the dollar, as well as further weakening against the yen and euro, investors need to weigh up the risks of currency depreciation affecting sterling-based returns.
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rising out of the ashes
Private equity was hit hard during and after the financial crisis but since then asset prices have stabilised, balance sheets are strengthening and the asset class is throwing up some well-priced opportunities
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emerging markets cheap or a value trap
In the recent BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager survey, a net 36% of the respondents said that global emerging markets are the most undervalued of all markets, the strongest reading since 2004.