Structured products have their naysayers without doubt but are advisers using them for the wrong client who then blame the product providers or are there structurral flaws that still need to be resolved?
There are increasing signs that politicians are experiencing fiscal fatigue. However, government finances continue to deteriorate as debt rises relative to national income.
In a reversal of fortune, economic headwinds are triumphing over increasingly popular high yield bonds as investors ready themselves for a rising interest rate environment.
What's in store for China after the disappointments of 2013?
Emerging market equities have been suffering from investorss’ sell-off mindset for several months but where to next? Stay put or look elsewhere?
Europe may have started to show signs of economic recovery – investor awareness is certainly increasing – but relatively poor corporate earnings may put the dampeners on any sustained market growth.
Given the bond bubble has not burst, equity markets have not collapsed, and even emerging markets are showing signs of improving, Max King explains to the doom-mongers what is really happening.
Investors are questioning absolute return approaches given the tough time they have had so far this year, particularly when there is a strong argument that an equity/cash combination could work just as well.
We all have the ability to look back in history with rose-tinted glasses especially to the periods when we were growing up (the 1970s in this case), even if that means remembering those skin-tight flares, platform shoes and black and white TVs.
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.
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.
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).
