gilliat structured products deliver on kick out
Structured products specialist Gilliat Financial Solutions has announced the maturity of four autocall products launched last year, which offered a defensive approach.
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swip expands real estate arm
With assets under management now topping £8.5bn, SWIP has announced five new recruits for its real estate arm.
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wealthy britons seek shelter in property
The UK’s millionaires have around one third of their cash in property and look set to increase their holdings in the asset class over the next six months.
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emerging market debt and currencies are good long-term best
Kevin Lecocq looks past the short-term chaos and suggests the Q3 sell-off makes emerging market debt and currencies better over the long term.
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pimco beefs up its emerging market equity team
Pimco has added five new senior hires to its emerging market equity team across its London, New York and Singapore offices.
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new policy outlook now qe gilt purchasing has started
George Buckley gives his fixed income outlook given QE II’s gilt purchasing staretd today.
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glg closes underperforming funds
GLG Partners, a sub-business of Man Group, has said it is to close its Asia Pacific and Global Emerging Markets funds.
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further fears for fall in ashmore global opps trust nav
A 20% fall in a 20% holding of the Ashmore Global Opportunities trust has more NAV alarm bells ringing.
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pa analysis qe should be buying corporate bonds not gilts
The latest round of QE will see another £75bn used to buy gilts – somebody has to – when corporate bonds is where the money should be directed.
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blackrock calls for greater etf transparency
Following the amount of negative attention given to ETFs in recent months, BlackRock has offered up a five-point plan to improve transparency for investors.
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index investors need to beware huge sector bias of ftse 100
RWC Partners’ Ian Lance and Nick Purves look at the make-up of the FTSE 100 index and urge investors to be wary of passive investing in an index with 35% in just two sectors.
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gold to hit 3000 with oil at 200 per barrel
Michael Howell talks about a 1930s-style recession when looking at what he describes as a “suicidally-low levels of ECB liquidity”