The latest funds to land a top Fundcalibre rating
Ten more strategies land the top accolade from the fund research agency
Ten more strategies land the top accolade from the fund research agency
In his latest commentary, GMO’s Jeremy Grantham warned investors that we could be entering a “market melt-up” phase of the current bull run which, according to many, is looking rather long in the tooth.
As the new year gets underway, Tony Yousefian, senior fund analyst at FundCalibre, identifies five fund managers to watch in 2018.
It’s that time of year: Santa rallies, market outlooks and crystal ball predictions of where the FTSE will end 2018 are the subjects du jour. So rather than buck the trend, Clive Hale suggests three potential game changers for 2018.
Emerging market equities and short duration corporate bonds are just two assets which should perform well in 2018 according to Fund Calibre’s Darius McDermott.
There seems to be no stopping the rising tide that has lifted every asset class – including bonds – since the market lows back in March 2009. I’ve been in this industry longer than some fund managers have been alive and I can’t remember a period like it, when everything went up together.
As investors fret about the demise of “the most unloved bull market of our lifetime,” now is the perfect time to start shorting according to FundCalibre’s managing director, Darius McDermott.
Glancing at the titles of my past few blogs, you could be forgiven for thinking I’m a ‘glass-half-empty’ kind of guy.
The Mifid II directive continues to dominate headlines, ahead of the all-important January deadline.
After the Financial Conduct Authority’s bombshell that it is referring the investment consulting industry to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), should the ratings agencies be concerned that they’re next in the firing line?
The summer has been a quiet one for markets (so far at least). Trading and volatility are low. Indeed, the VIX index recently recorded its longest ever run of nine days below 10.
Central banks have upped the rhetoric in recent weeks, with all but the Bank of Japan hinting at rising rates and/or winding in quantitative easing. It seems a strange time to be talking this way – just as the hard economic data looks to be in danger of peaking.