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.
While all eyes were on the FTSE All Share and how it would react to a hung parliament last Friday, something a little more dramatic was occurring the other side of the pond and, for once, it wasn’t Trump-related.
FundCalibre has rated four more funds as ‘elite’, taking the total number with the prestigious ranking to 158.
FundCalibre has expanded its research ratings to help users better understand the ‘daunting’ world of investment companies.
River and Mercantile Asset Management has topped FundCalibre’s Fund Management Equity Index 2017 with a five-year average outperformance of 51.33% as their value style returns to favour.
FundCalibre is responding to growing demand for investment trusts as it plans to roll out closed-ended ratings next year.
Central banks continue down the path of crazy monetary policy: the Fed has a lot on its mind, but doesn’t feel inclined to share its thoughts in case they trigger a melt down, whilst in Blighty the Bank of England have said they are testing the efficacy of an interest rate cut if Brexit occurs.
Unicorn Asset Management has topped the FundCalibre Fund Management Equity Index list of top performers for the second year running.
Contrarian investments have been the best performing since the start of the year, according to FundCalibre.
Since Markowitz, multi-asset investing has been increasingly “en vogue”. The other trait that has caught the imagination – as well the attention of the regulators – is risk assessment.
FundCalibre has rolled out a new ratings system for bond fund providers with Royal London and Kames Capital found to be the top performers.
David Cameron has written his Christmas list early this year, kicking off his campaign to renegotiate the UK’s membership of the EU, and telling us that his objectives will be difficult, but not impossible, to achieve. Whether or not he gets his wish depends on the European Council, rather than Saint Nick.
