PA ANALYSIS: Brexit one year on
It has been exactly a year since the UK electorate voted for Brexit and made what one British fund manager recently termed, “a huge strategic error of the like the country hasn’t experienced in maybe a century”.
It has been exactly a year since the UK electorate voted for Brexit and made what one British fund manager recently termed, “a huge strategic error of the like the country hasn’t experienced in maybe a century”.
India’s Nifty 50 index has been steadily climbing this year, hitting an all-time high of 9,675 earlier this month, but can it breach the 10,000 barrier?
Brexit negotiations are officially underway. But what’s the final Brexit going to be – hard, soft, wobbly, red white and blue? Or will the UK economy simply plunge off the cliff edge? Investors weigh in.
With a string of countries having been promoted to emerging market status by index provider MSCI in recent years, are frontier markets still a viable asset class?
“Positive and constructive” was how the UK’s Brexit secretary David Davis described his mood as he kicked off negotiations with the EU on Monday morning.
Assets in exchange traded funds sailed past the $4trn mark globally last month, indicating their increasing popularity among investors worldwide.
The old adage ‘don’t fight the Fed’ exists for a reason.
Since the general election, investment managers have become even more sceptical of the UK’s place on the global stage and have cut exposure accordingly.
Any hopes the Bank of England could soon hike interest rates have been dashed after news of the UK’s soaring inflation emerged on Tuesday, so should we settle in for the ‘new normal’ of an inflationary world?
The headlines say fund groups’ profits fell, but what else can we learn from McKinsey & Company’s Asset Management 2017 report into the European funds industry?
The thesaurus doesn’t offer a decent alternative to “uncertainty”, the post-election word du jour, yet Theresa May’s dire performance makes it likely we will be reading the word many times a day for the foreseeable future.
Last night’s result is merely paving the way for a “matrix” of political outcomes just 10 days before Brexit negotiations are due to start.