BlackRocks Adam Avigdori is remaining balanced between developed and developing world equities in his Income and Growth investment trust as economic indicators improve in the west but growth prospects remain stronger in emerging markets.
The OBR is widely expected to revise up its UK growth predictions in Thursday’s Autumn Statement, but are bullish investors too complacent about Britain’s recovery?
Last month was the worst November for gold prices in more than 30 years, but investors pounced on the precious metals weakness to add to their positions.
China’s growth accelerated to 7.8% year-on-year, reversing the slowdown seen during the first half of 2013.
Smith and Williamson has changed the name and objective of its Far Eastern Growth Trust to increase its appeal to income-seeking investors.
Russ Koesterich, BlackRock’s chief investment strategist, explores the reasons for the recent increase in volatility and why investors should be more concerned about slower economic growth than potential tightening of monetary policy.
Fundamentals may be weak, but it should still be a constructive year for growth and inflation assets although the main support is unlikely to come from growth itself.
As investments have become more diverse and complicated in nature, so fund managers have grown increasingly reluctant to have their methods boxed into predefined classifications, especially with growth and value.
Theres been talk recently about a summer risk asset rally which may or not be coming to an end depending upon your perspective on the state of the US economy and the eurozones woes.
Fitch Ratings’ latest findings on the underperformance of value-oriented stock picking, published last week, have made for interesting reading but, arguably, this tells us little that we dont already know.
Aviva Investors has added a defined growth range of products to its existing structured propositions
