Heavy utilities regulations translates to sustainable dividends – Fidelity
Investors seeking sustainable dividends should look no further than the heavily-regulated utilities sector, according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment’s Michael Clarke.
Investors seeking sustainable dividends should look no further than the heavily-regulated utilities sector, according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment’s Michael Clarke.
China has cut interest rates for the third time since November, but more easing measures are needed to support slowing economic growth, according to the two asset managers.
China’s interest rate cut announced over the weekend is widely expected to be just the latest move in a monetary loosening process that could ultimately end in quantitative easing.
Policy divergence will reach a breaking point and either drag the US and UK back into quantitative easing or trigger widespread reflation, says Rathbones’ Bryn Jones.
Quantitative easing and its sister, zero interest rates are having a deflationary impact on the global economy says Fundsmith CEO, Terry Smith.
With the Nikkei 225 breaking through the 20,000 point level yesterday and Japanese stocks broadly having put on around 15% this year, many investors will be trying to ascertain whether that is as good as it gets or a sign of things to come.
Investors are set to benefit from a quantitative easing ‘second wind’ which will create opportunity in the corporate bond sector, says RBC Wealth Management’s Hakan Enokssen.
Both the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank have made significant statements on global economic issues, with the former issuing a warning and the latter offering reassurance.
Popular mis-characterisations of debt, deflation and QE result in a distorted picture of macroeconomic investment risks, said Kevin Gardiner, global investment strategist at Rothschild Wealth Management.
The European equities space is poised to receive a wave of foreign capital as overseas investors run out of reasons not to buy, said Tony Lanning, manager of JP Morgan Asset Managements Fusion fund range.
A return of market volatility is the predominant risk to investors in 2015, says PanAgora Asset Managements Bryan Belton.
Investors concerned by eurozone political rumblings should seek protection via the US dollar, says Legal & General Investment Management’s Justin Onuekwusi