Robert Alster Close Brothers research head
Robert Alster joins Close Bros in the new year as company announces a second new senior hire this year.
Growth
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Carphone Warehouse leads gains for Avigdori
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.
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Too complacent on the UK recovery
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?
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Investors buy back into gold at 1980s prices
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.
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China growth
China’s growth accelerated to 7.8% year-on-year, reversing the slowdown seen during the first half of 2013.
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Smith and Williamson target income
Smith and Williamson has changed the name and objective of its Far Eastern Growth Trust to increase its appeal to income-seeking investors.
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Softening Growth Raises Investor Concerns
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.
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growth assets supported by cheap cash
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.
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The fund managers balancing act
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.
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Growth value and the rise of the pragmatists
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.
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Value managers must keep faith
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.
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New range of structured products from Aviva Investors
Aviva Investors has added a defined growth range of products to its existing structured propositions