A drive toward transparency in the platform market will narrow the gap between big retail players and the institutional market, Multrees Investor Services chief executive officer Chris Fisher predicts.
Fidelity International’s James Bateman believes oil is a better “Armageddon hedge” than gold because it is needed irrespective of market conditions whereas gold is not.
Japanese equity fund managers are backing small and mid cap companies in the tech space as well as ‘online disrupters’ ahead of the snap election to be held in October.
Active funds investing in UK equities enjoyed strong 12 months, with 80% of sterling denominated funds outperforming benchmark.
A federalised Europe is the only way to secure the survival of the European Union, according to one of its chief Brexit negotiators.
The US Federal Reserve has left the Fed Funds Rate unchanged at 1-1.25%, but announced it will begin to unwind its quantitative easing programme in October.
The UK remained an unpopular place for investors to park their cash in September, as lingering uncertainty regarding the shape of the Brexit deal continued to spark anxiety about the region’s long-term prospects. The UK equities sector was the biggest loser by far, falling 3.20 percentage points (pp) in investors’ estimation to 1.55% between August and September, its…
In a surprising turn of events, the Office for National Statistics reported that August retail sales in the UK delivered strong volume growth against the odds.
The S&P 500 just keeps setting new all-time highs, but the rally could soon reverse since it’s driven increasingly by technology stocks alone.
Wintle, who recently launched the actively-managed VT Tyndall North American Fund, has built a bullish case for the US economy, batting off bearish claims that a long-running bull market will soon come to a crashing end. Instead, self-confessed bull Wintle has argued a period of negative earnings per share (EPS) growth from late 2014 to…
A benchmark study from the Diversity Project has found that racial diversity remains one of the biggest issues facing the asset management industry.
The Treasury has threatened to clampdown on a tax-relief system encouraging the wealthy to invest in start-up firms over fears investors are abusing the system.
