PA ANALYSIS: The Bats indices launch is shrewd move
Bats Europe’s launch of a set of indices to rival the famous FTSE range may well turn out to be a very shrewd move which works out well for Bats and helps investment firms’ bottom line.
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PA ANALYSIS: Bracing for peak Brexit
The vote on Brexit is now less than two weeks away and markets are increasingly feeling the ill effects of the uncertainty.
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PA ANALYSIS: Where are all the risk takers?
Outcome-based investing is the investment structure of the decade and is predicated on maximising risk management first and eeking out returns second.
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PA ANALYSIS: Investors in wait-and-see mode as data give few hints
Financial markets have lacked direction in recent months, with the main equity indices all very close to where they were at the start of the year. Macroeconomic data are not strong enough to reinvigorate the bull market, yet not sufficiently weak to stoke fears of recession.
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PA ANALYSIS: Global flexibility key for proposed Woodford fund
When Woodford Investment Management contemplates a new fund, the market tends to sit up and take notice and, with good reason.
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PA ANALYSIS: The other side of the Brexit coin
As the Brexit vote looms the focus is on what it will mean for Britain, but there is another side to this coin.
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PA ANALYSIS: Absolute return facing up to its “biggest enemy”
Sterling’s latest dramatic fall demonstrates investors’ need to manage both currency as well as equity volatility, but do the big funds deliver in mitigating these risks within your portfolios?
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PA ANALYSIS: Is there a future for single country equity funds?
European equities have been the best-selling asset class with European investors in recent history. However, this hasn’t benefited those funds that invest exclusively in equities listed in one particular European country.
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PA ANALYSIS: It is time to reimagine the IFA / DFM relationship
Growth in IFAs outsourcing investment services to DFMs continues apace or is indicative of ‘X’ or ‘Y’ have been common refrains across the trade press in recent months.
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PA ANALYSIS: Has a commodities bull market taken hold?
Every asset class has its time in the sun and periods where nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole.
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PA ANALYSIS: A lot at stake in ‘unsurprising’ RIT/Alliance bid
That there was a bid for Alliance Trust announced on Tuesday was a lot less surprising for many commentators than that it was the Rothschild Investment Trust contemplating the offer.
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PA ANALYSIS: Forget active share, it is active fee you should focus on
A poll of European fund selectors conducted last year by Portfolio Adviser’s sister site, Expert Investor, showed that active share is an important fund selection metric for more than 80% of them. However, very few fund houses regularly update investors about the active share of their funds. Should they be more open?`
