In part two of our three-part series on advisers’ top picks across the risk spectrum we look at the five most-selected funds for aggressive investors – ideal if you have clients looking to take on more risk in the wake of recent market rallies.
European investor confidence grew modestly in February, while confidence in Asia has fallen in the past month, figures from the latest State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) show.
UK investors are still hungry for risk despite significant fear of economic uncertainty in the eurozone and the possibility of a triple dip recession at home, according to a survey conducted by Unbiased.co.uk.
Aquila Capital has announced its intention to launch a Risk Parity Bond Strategy for investors looking to diversify and counterbalance their exiting fixed income exposures.
The Financial Services Authority has deployed mystery shoppers for the first time since investigating PPI mis-selling in 2008, as it strived to judge the suitability of high street investment advice in the run up to RDR.
In the final of our three part series on advisers’ top funds across the risk spectrum, we take a look at the most-favoured funds for balanced investors.
The practice of asset managers retrospectively risk-rating funds has led to widespread industry confusion and could lead to an era of systemic mis-selling by financial advisers, Allianz Global Investors has warned.
This years rally in risk assets looks to be an aberration when compared to respective performances since the start of the global financial crisis in 2007, according to Deloittes chief economist in the UK Ian Stewart.
Advisers have taken risk off the table across all categories in the past six months, leading to a convergence of cautious, balance and aggressive recommendations, according to FE.
The real encouraging sign from 2011 is that liquid gold outperformed metal gold, remarked Lindsell Trains co-founder Nick Train to me earlier this week. What was he talking about?
Investors should increasingly be wary of the three “Rs” impacting investment outcomes today and in the near future – recession, repression and risk – according to Marc Seidner, managing director at Pimco.
Apollo Multi Asset Management has had two more of its funds risk-profiled by Distribution Technology, taking the total range to four funds.
