Capitalising on market noise and investor jitters – Husselbee
China and Greece are merely distractions, says Liontrust’s John Husselbee, and investors should be focusing on the US interest rate headline event.
China and Greece are merely distractions, says Liontrust’s John Husselbee, and investors should be focusing on the US interest rate headline event.
It’s been a busy six months for the FTSE, but how are UK managers set for a potentially volatile second half of the year and beyond?
Investors should be braced for a volatile summer, says Royal London’s Trevor Greetham, but there are pockets within equities that can offer some shelter.
Bond investors should treat Grexit as a side-issue and turn their attention to impending interest rate rises, says Invesco Perpertual’s Stuart Edwards.
Greece leaving the euro will not come to pass and is nothing more than a “distraction issue”, says Kames CIO Stephen Jones.
The global economy is teetering between recovery and overheating, says Fidelity’s Eugene Philalithis, and investors should prepare for rising inflation by taking on hybrid assets.
Most European markets were trading lower (somewhere between 1 and 2%) in early trade on Monday, after Greece’s historic no vote in Sunday’s austerity referendum.
“Events in Greece have tipped the balance,” Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, said on Wednesday as explanation for the Financial Policy Committee’s view that risks to financial stability have worsened.
For the past few weeks, Greece and her creditors have engaged in more and more intensive dialogue in order to try to bridge the gap between their respective positions over continuing the gradual and orderly restructuring of the Greek economy and government finances.
In the old Road Runner cartoons, Wile E. Coyote spent a lot of time running on air. Having run off a bridge or a cliff, he would remain remarkably buoyant for a while. Then he would look down and, of course, plummet to the floor.
Emerging market debt and high yield bonds, which have had some pretty high inflow volatility recently, are now firmly back in favour with European investors.
As Greece is heading for a default, which would significantly increase the possibility for the country to be forced out of the eurozone, markets have plummeted.