Sentiment towards US equities has turned from negative to neutral among European fund selectors for the first time since Donald Trump won the presidential election in November 2016, according to Last Word Research.
Absolute return managers weigh in on how they are positioned for the potentially volatile fallout of a US trade war as Donald Trump announces tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods.
St James’s Place (SJP), Neptune and Aviva Investors are among asset managers with $657.7m in three companies connected with US detention camps holding immigrants and their children.
Blackrock has blamed index tracking products for its large stake in a contractor involved in child detention centres in the US, while Vanguard, along with several active investors, has been silent on its exposure to the political controversy.
Brexit, the US missile attack on Syria and new tensions with Iran, North Korea and Russia have all helped to bring gold into play in recent weeks.
The market’s adjustment to life under President-elect Donald Trump has been worryingly quick say Matt Ward and Jenny Jones.
In this week’s edition of the podcast, Kaan Nazli, emerging markets economist at Neuberger Berman discusses whether or not there is still room to run on the EM rally, where he is seeing opportunity in the debt space and how a Trump presidency could affect the market.
BlackRock has identified a higher correlation between equity and bond prices and the US election as the greatest worries in the short-term.
Has macro analysis simply become an attempt to second guess what the central banks are going to do?
