PA ANALYSIS: Will wealth managers avoid scrutiny on charges?
Has the FCA asset management review missed a trick by not expanding its demands for transparency to wealth management?
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PA ANALYSIS: Is it the right time to be piling into bonds?
Portfolio advisers have been looking at equity market valuations rather nervously for some time tilting towards less risky assets, taking profits and holding more cash.
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PA ANALYSIS: How should investors respond to ECB tapering?
The improving economic outlook in the euro area has prompted the European Central Bank to consider reining in its monetary stimulus. How should investors respond to the prospect of monetary tightening in Europe?
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PA ANALYSIS: In the world of ESG how easy is it being green?
With melting ice caps and dwindling fossil fuel reserves, it’s easy to see why some £87bn of assets have been funnelled into ethical and sustainable funds – but how wary should investors be when opting to put money into these strategies?
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PA ANALYSIS: Bank of England frozen after decade of rate inactivity
A heck of a lot can happen in 10 years, but not it seems when it comes to the Bank of England’s base rate.
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PA ANALYSIS: How the FCA’s revised fee policy affects you
There are no particularly nasty surprises in this week’s FCA fee policy statement though it has confirmed above inflation fee rises with bills due to arrive on doormats later this month.
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PA ANALYSIS: Income investors on alert as dividend cover plummets
UK income investors are on alert after research revealed that dividend cover for companies listed in the FTSE 350 has fallen 18% in the past year, hitting its lowest level for seven years.
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PA ANALYSIS: Have research and ratings firms escaped the FCA’s wrath?
This week’s ‘final’ report on the Financial Conduct Authority’s Asset Management Market Study has left a key area open to further debate.
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PA ANALYSIS: Time for Carney to change the rate record
It turns out Mark Carney is a man for turning after all, and it’s about time the bank governor realised the time has come to change tack with the UK economy.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is the FCA’s bark worse than its bite?
The Financial Conduct Authority’s long-awaited final report on the asset management sector will have disappointed many expecting an overhaul of the entire market.
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PA ANALYSIS: Price slump not tempting investors back into oil
Huge falls in the price of oil have not been enough to convince some asset allocators and managers that now is the time to get back into the asset class.
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PA ANALYSIS: Active managers ‘cannibalising’ themselves to survive passive resurgence
Passive rivals have forced active managers to focus more on fees than ever before. But are active managers biting off more than they can chew by getting into smart beta?
