Magazines

In this month’s PA we consider the liquidity risk attached to certain funds that hold large stakes in small firms. We also ask whether gold is the best defence in volatile times and look at the revival of European equities after a decade of skepticism.

The UK’s long-running bull market is making investors nervous, and alternatives are an obvious solution to the high valuations and positive correlations it has produced. But advisers and investors are still reluctant to buy into this asset type. This guide, produced in association with Architas, debunks some commonly-held myths, looks at the role alternatives play…

This month’s guide to income assesses the landscape for incoming-producing asset classes, some 10 years on since the onset of the global financial crisis. Morningstar’s Richard Whitehall looks at where the best opportunities for income-based investors currently lie; be it equities, bonds, or somewhere else, while we ask advisers and wealth managers where they are…

This month we look at how the regulator has increased its focus on fund ratings agencies as part of its review of the asset management industry. We also consider whether property investing is due a renaissance a year on from the liquidity issues following the Brexit vote. And we weigh up prospects in the UK…

This month we look at investing in Asia, 20 years on from the region’s crippling financial crisis. We also chart the move into alternative assets and ask if the sector is verging on bubble territory, And we find out why doing nothing in a portfolio is often the best investment strategy of them all.

This month’s issue of Portfolio Adviser asks if wealth managers should cut UK equities, whether growth has peaked for European equities and debates whether it is time for investors to put their prejudices against Japan to bed. We cover the recent rise in passive investing, driven by price wars, regulation and uncertainty, and explain how…