Investment

  • smart investors moves after uk downgrade

    smart investors moves after uk downgrade

    So George Osborne has been stripped of his prefect’s badge and told to brush up on his maths skills. What he, and the coalition government, chooses to do now is anyone’s guess. The path for investors is at last clear though…

  • Schroders re-opens US small-cap strategy

    Schroders re-opens US small-cap strategy

    Schroders has re-opened its US mid-cap strategy to capitalise on renewed investor appetite for developed market equities.

  • New share class launched for JB fund

    New share class launched for JB fund

    Swiss & Global has launched a new monthly distribution sterling share class for its Julius Baer Emerging Markets Inflation Linked Bond Fund.

  • credit fixed income absolute return struggle

    credit fixed income absolute return struggle

    Given the low interest rate/low bond yield environment, Rob Harley argues that the fixed income strategies we have seen so much of recently coule be in for a torrid ride.

  • finex russian debt etf far from me too

    finex russian debt etf far from me too

    FinEx Group has entered the European exchange-traded fund market with the listing of a Russian Corporate Bond Fund on the London Stock Exchange today.

  • African opportunities

    African opportunities

    There is an abundance of high-yield opportunities in Africa for those investors prepared to take a bit more of a risk, a research report from Jupiter Asset Management suggests.

  • potter - world running out of bearish reasons

    potter – world running out of bearish reasons

    Investors considering allocating to equities for the first time in years could do a lot better than “dipping their toes in the water” with large caps, according to Gary Potter, co-head of multi-manager funds at Thames River.

  • Equities rise as sterling plummets

    Equities rise as sterling plummets

    The UK equity market is outpacing its European counterparts, and could continue doing so despite on-going currency woes according to the chief investment officer at Coutts.

  • slis hudson - bolstered banks behind rally

    slis hudson – bolstered banks behind rally

    Consensus among Standard Life Investments’ fund managers is that banks will play an important role to ongoing performance in corporate bonds and equities, according to Frances Hudson, the group’s global thematic strategist.

  • New property fund targets student houses

    New property fund targets student houses

    Luxembourg Fund Partners has launched a new fund targeting investments in student houses in prime markets such as Edinburgh and Cambridge.

  • rise of real assets as fund giants

    rise of real assets as fund giants

    John Husselbee looks at the giant funds of just five years ago and how they are faring today before asking how investment trends will shape the top-ten giant funds of the future.

  • Are em equities really so undervalued

    Are em equities really so undervalued

    My mum knows next to nothing about economics, but even she recognises that China and India are on the growth path. So why do professional investors still think emerging markets are undervalued?