time to get behind apcims
APCIMS has come a long way in the past year, so why for some does it still represent the industrys stuffy stock broking past rather than its modern multi-asset future?
Investment
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gam launches first in house gem fund
The GAM Star Emerging Equity Fund is the company’s first long-only global emerging market equity fund to be run in-house.
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investing in property
If you were burnt by property during the meltdown of the financial crisis, it’s easy to see why you, and your clients, might be wary of the asset class. But is it time to give it another chance?
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EM exposure should be global not regional
Didier Saint-Georges works for a company that invests across 50 different stock markets so is well placed to explain why an allocation to emerging markets needs to be global rather than regional.
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are these the new faces of EM investing
Here are the photos from the Emerging Market event we hosted last week at the Mayfair Hotel in London, where delegates discussed various equity and debt, local and hard currency, opportunities throughout the emerging markets with a number of specialist fund managers.
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smaller companies benefit from lack of research
Tim Cockerill explains the renaissance in smaller company investing, adding that those who take the time to dig deep can take advantage of a general lack of research of these businesses.
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russia – a doll of an investment
Concerns surrounding Russia’s political landscape and its reliance on oil and gas still abound. But if you don’t have exposure to Russia in your portfolio, could you be missing out on the cheapest way to capture an EM market recovery?
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investec to launch managed solutions funds
Investec Asset Management is to launch two multi-asset managed solutions funds as part of a realignment of its product range ahead of RDR.
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untapped income potential
Investors are desperate for new sources of income and, while they are certainly not new, investment trusts should appear higher on income investors lists than they currently do, says Jackie Beard.
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markets waiting for politicians to play ball
Watching todays pictures of an awkward David Cameron struggling to keep pace with basketball lays bare the lengths image-conscious politicians have to go to rack up on diplomacy points, particularly when the US public may soon call time on his ally President Obama.
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style of exposure is key to success this year
Eden’s Mark Harris argues that with correlations moving lower and the dispersion in returns becoming greater asset allocation is crucial to portflio success in 2012.
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l and g sps span tax years
With ISA season in full swing Legal & General has launched a brace of structured products giving investors the opportunity to use their ISA allowance across two tax years in the same investment.