benefits of digital layer in structured portfolio
While all the caveats of past performance and unknown futures still apply, Ian Lowes gives specific examples of structured products that would help investors looking for a degree of certainty.
Profiles & Comment
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Investors turning bullish is a sign to be wary
Nigel Cuming has good investment and macro reasons to have a higher weighting to equities but explains why he is still loathe to up his allocation at the moment.
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gdp accepted but imperfect economic measure
A country's gross domestic product is the accepted measure of its economic strength but John Husselbee argues this is too narrow a focus and should be broadened.
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Opportunities to come from policy inaction
Nick Gartside explains why his focus is now back to where it was at the beginning of the year, on the outlook for growth and problems in the eurozone.
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Opportunities to come from policy inaction
Nick Gartside's explains why his focus is now back where it was at the beginning of the year, on the outlook for growth and problems in the eurozone.
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bull market to hold steady
BlackRock's Bob Doll predicts stocks will continue to outperform cash and treasuries in the next 12 months, but adds the bull market will need some further prodding to truly take off.
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japans conflict with china
Courtiers' CIO, Gary Reynolds, says Japan's conflict with China over the Senkaku Islands is far from his prime concern when it comes to investing (or in his case not investing) in the country.
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ecb becomes a political animal
M&G's Richard Woolnough outlines potential consequences of the ECB's latest bond-purchasing plan, not least its apparent morphing from central bank to centre for politics.
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introducing the four horsemen
Kames’ Bill Dining says a healthy cynicism about the efficacy and motives of policymakers has led him to cast Mario Draghi, Mervyn King, Ben Bernanke and governor of the central bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, as the villains of the piece.
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who owns the client if their adviser leaves
The issues around client ownership are tricky so it is more than just useful that Malcolm Small is wading through some of them to provide an industry protocol for when their adviser leaves the advisory firm.
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a letter from singapore
Aberdeen Asset Management Asia’s managing director, Hugh Young, gives a sense of how matters really look out east and decides which of the Asian giants present the most compelling investment case.
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listed hedge funds absolute returns
Stephen Peters goes in search of funds that can provide an absolute return but do not charge a performance fee for providing investors with nothing more than market beta.
