As fees fall so provider focus must shift
As price cuts across the financial sector bring fees ever closer to zero, so the focus shifts slowly to other ways of maintaining customer loyalty.
PA Analysis
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Does ECB action create ABS opportunity
The ECBs announcement this month of measures to support the Eurozone economy has created fresh interest in ABS but the market has become very small with supply too tight to meet a further uptick in demand.
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PA ANALYSIS a year of evolution for the ima
So far, 2014 has proven to be one of the Investment Management Association’s most eventful years.
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Inflation fears and the desert island data
UK inflation is down to its lowest level in more than four years, making a mockery of the Bank of Englands 2% target, but should investors be worried?
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Is active management now cheap enough to justify
New research by the Pensions Institute demonstrates that even star fund managers struggle to beat the benchmark, when costs and fund size is included.
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Is it time to re-draw the EM categories
MSCIs recent decision to remove South Korea and Taiwan from its review list and exclude Chinas A-shares from its EM index raises a few questions about how we should be thinking about emerging markets.
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How to set a realistic income target
There are few certainties in the investment world, except even the best fund managers will from time-to-time underperform, what booms will one day bust and clients will still demand income.
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Is it time to shun UK retail stocks
As Sainbury’s becomes the latest UK retail name to announce falling sales investors may well be asking themselves whether it is a sector to steer clear of all together in the near term.
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Are tech stocks still the domain
In the US, the CIA has hit the headlines having opened its first Facebook and Twitter accounts, but while social media has well and truly infiltrated the establishment are investors really still spying growth opportunities in the sector?
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Property looking good despite house prices
Even as concerns rise about the warmth of the residential property markets, investors seem to be increasingly bullish on parts of the UK property market.
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Are the days of GEM numbered
As the saying goes, ‘none but the brave deserve the fair’. As far as investors are concerned, perhaps it is better said that only the bravest should persue the fair-valued market.
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PA ANALYSIS India is it time to buy
Following a positive market rush after elections, India is a wild card depending how investors choose to play it.
