The potential for trade wars to escalate could create buying opportunities for investors as global stock markets tumbled overnight on President Donald Trump’s plans for tariffs on up to $60bn (£42bn) of Chinese products.
Skittish investment in high yield and robust demand for emerging market debt led the action by European bond funds over the last year, but will this trend continue?
China’s push to clean up its environmental act has made it an attractive investment destination, according to Mirabaud Asset Management’s head of global emerging markets, Daniel Tubbs.
China has been making all the headlines in recent weeks after it celebrated the Year of the Dog on 16 February. After such a strong year for Chinese investors in 2017, many headlines focused on the opportunities which lie ahead, but are there dangers that investors need to be aware of?
A Chinese conglomerate with ambitions in the west has acquired a London-based asset manager and its Guernsey-based subsidiary.
February 16 marks the Chinese New Year, with 2018 welcoming the Year of the Dog. However, while the dog is associated with honesty, faithfulness, and a strong sense of responsibility in the Chinese zodiac, investors will be hoping for a repeat of 2017 – the Year of the Rooster – which saw the MSCI China…
Jupiter’s Jason Pidcock has begun 2018 in a more defensive frame of mind and has been bulking up the liquidity of his Asian Income fund in case of a “mini-credit crunch”.
On the one-year anniversary of president Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration is more divided than ever with growing murmurs of a government shutdown. One thing the president seems to have unwavering support on is his tax bill, but with treasury yields rising should investors be more concerned?
As we settle into the new year, wealth managers are deciding on the best places to put their cash. Here, the EMEA multi-asset investment team at BMO Global Asset Management assesses the case for investing in Europe, UK, US and China.
Enthusiasm for investing in China has never been higher than in 2017 and fears of a slowdown have largely receded from the public discourse. But have investors taken their eye off the region just when it matters most?
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but looking at this year’s worst performing sectors and where investors have mostly been investing in 2017 may make depressing reading for some.
While 2017 has been a “forgiving year”, producing decent returns for most asset classes, Brewin Dolphin’s head of research, Guy Foster, believes that investors won’t be in for such a smooth ride in the new year.
