barclays champions long term china play
Direct exposure to China deserves a place in most long-term portfolios despite the recent underperformance of the country’s companies, Barclay’s Kevin Gardiner argues.
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barclays faces two more us investigations
Barclays is undergoing another two regulatory investigations in the US, the banking group’s half-year results show.
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barclays offers spectrum of clean fee
Barclays has revealed plans for its RDR-ready share classes to be launched ahead of 31 December across its multi-asset passive and active solutions, single asset funds and within its discretionary offerings via platforms.
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barclays on equities and us housing recovery
Recent indicators have suggested the US housing market could be on the brink of recovery, leaving investors looking for ways to gain exposure to the change in circumstances.
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benefits of digital layer in structured portfolio
While all the caveats of past performance and unknown futures still apply, Ian Lowes gives specific examples of structured products that would help investors looking for a degree of certainty.
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Barclays adds GlobalAccess fund range to platforms
Barclays’ GlobalAccess fund range is now available on Ascentric and Elevate with further platform launches to follow.
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banks face billions in Libor-fixing fines or not
In separate notes issued this morning Morgan Stanley and Nomura both explain the difficulties of calculating the level of the fines faced by the banks accused of fixing Libor.
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sfo to consider criminal prosecutions over libor
Following the FSA’s investigation into ‘regulatory misbehaviour’ that resulting in the possibly illegal fixing of Libor, the SFO is to launhc its own criminal investigation.
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Diamond to be quizzed by mps over Libor fixing
Bob Diamond will later today face the Treasury Select Committee over allegations of rate fixing.
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Ailing banks too big to fail
So, another banker loses his job. Its been a familiar story over the past five years, though the departure of Bob Diamond brings things to a whole new level.
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barclays absolute return commodity fund UK
Barclays is to introduce a sterling share class of its commodity-based absolute return Capital Combats Fund into the UK.
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political risk up portfolio risk down
As an economist, Aaron Gurwitz finds political risk “unnerving” but here he analyses the various risks as they stand today to give his thoughts on what they mean for portfolio constuction.
