How to prosper in a low-margin environment
The asset management industry is facing significant new challenges and active managers need to adapt or risk irrelevance, according to an expert at PwC.
The asset management industry is facing significant new challenges and active managers need to adapt or risk irrelevance, according to an expert at PwC.
Currency is the “biggest hidden risk” to equity portfolios, yet many investors are not aware of the threat it poses, according to Natixis Investment Managers.
UK investors in balanced portfolios could lose as much as 20% following a significant market correction as financial advisers gravitate towards higher risk profiles within their standard portfolios, according to Natixis Investment Managers’ latest UK Portfolio Barometer.
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a Real Capital Builder (RCB) fund in a bid to beat the inflation rise.
Momentum Global IM’s head of portfolio management James Klempster is cutting risk and picking up government bonds in his portfolios.
Multi-asset and absolute return strategies have been at the height of popularity in recent months as investors scramble to defend against potential headwinds, but with economic data so favourable is the only thing we need to fear actually fear itself?
Natixis Global Asset Management has issued its latest UK Portfolio Barometer on how advisers positioned model portfolios in the fourth quarter of 2016. Here are five of the key takeaways.
A dip in bond yields incited investor appetite for riskier bonds, while Donald Trump’s economic nationalism has made emerging markets a compelling contrarian prospect, according to fund flows data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The rise of populism is increasing the risk of a near-term policy shock, and thus of renewed market volatility. While we believe the fundamental environment remains sound, risks are rising. This suggests that prudent investors may want to consider positioning portfolios more conservatively, at least at the margin.
Outcome-based investing is the investment structure of the decade and is predicated on maximising risk management first and eeking out returns second.
Parmenion has decided to take risk off the table within its range of risk graded portfolios.
Following the turbulence of the first quarter, Eoin Murray, head of the Hermes Investment Office, believes that markets continue to be at risk of price spikes and falls, with volatility and liquidity risk being particularly concerning.