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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Neil Williams, chief economist at Hermes Fund Managers, explains why political risk and fiscal corrections are dual factors in subdued growth across the globe.
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Bill O’Neill takes a look at what the US political and economic backdrop could be like at the start of next year asking, among other questions, what if Mitt Romney wins November’s election?
With one third of the world’s investment focussed on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Pavel Gagarin asks whether this is a help or a hindrance to foreign investment in Russia.
Volatility in the eurozone markets have hit a low since Lehman Brothers collapsed but, as John Husselbee alludes to, there is really only one direction volatility can now go in.