PA ANALYSIS: Will ETFs and trusts breathe new life into platforms?
While some have been keen to pronounce platforms to be ‘dead’ providers do not seem willing to throw in the towel and have launched a counter-attack.
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PA ANALYSIS: No extra QE for Japan – the verdict
It has become fashionable for central bankers around the world to strike a gloomier tone in recent meetings.
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PA ANALYSIS: Could bond yields fall further still?
As expected the FOMC voted overwhelmingly to keep US interest rates on hold yesterday, with Treasuries falling, but what next for bond yields?
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PA ANALYSIS: Are emerging markets at rock bottom?
Emerging markets may look cheap relative to their history, but investors have been slow to call the nadir while there remains no obvious sign of economic improvement.
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PA ANALYSIS: Should investors worry about UK growth?
With market confidence still fragile after the China-inspired slump, the last thing UK equities funds needed was soft economic data to be released.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is the world ready for a ‘moderately prosperous’ China?
For what is traditionally a highly secretive event, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee’s fifth plenary session taking place this week is liable to have a pretty high media profile.
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PA ANALYSIS: ‘Dead’ platforms need to reform to survive
Platforms have not yet lived up to their potential to be genuinely transformative for advisers, finds a new report from the Lang Cat. It says the promise to make the delivery of advice more efficient and responsive has, at best, been only partially fulfilled.
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PA ANALYSIS: A good day for Eurozone investors?
Mario Draghi sounded a sombre note at today’s European Central Bank meeting, suggesting lack of structural reform and pressure from emerging market weakness were holding back the Eurozone recovery.
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PA ANALYSIS: Wealth managers ignore ESG investing at their peril
The rising tide of regulation and ever increased scrutiny on fees has meant that scale is ever more important for wealth managers.
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PA ANALYSIS: The red flags in FTSE 100 companies
Analysts and commentators of various stripes have been falling over each other to proclaim this quarter and the start of next year to be a high volatility, high risk period.
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PA ANALYSIS: The dilemma for the UK equity income manager
The latest Capital Registrars Dividend Monitor highlighted the dilemma for UK equity income investors.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is EM sentiment beginning to shift?
Emerging markets remain low down on wealth managers’ list of things to buy. But, judging by the news flow this week, they are now quite as low down as they once were and, for some, they are beginning to move much higher.
