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.
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.
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.
Barclays’ GlobalAccess fund range is now available on Ascentric and Elevate with further platform launches to follow.
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.
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.
Bob Diamond will later today face the Treasury Select Committee over allegations of rate fixing.
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.
Barclays is to introduce a sterling share class of its commodity-based absolute return Capital Combats Fund into the UK.
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.
Barclays Stockbrokers has relaunched its platform proposition for UK intermediaries in the run-up to RDR.
Barclays and GAM have teamed up to launch a proposition based on alternative, quantitatively-run indices managed by Barclays.
Equity trades high with execution-only investors but experts advise long-term thinking.