Wealth Manager Profile: WH Ireland’s Roderick Buchanan
WH Ireland wealth management head Roderick Buchanan talks about overhauling the business, embracing the digital age and why a ‘sensible’ investment style is best for clients.
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PA ANALYSIS: Budget double blow for economy’s ‘lifeblood’
The self employed and small business owners received a double blow in Wednesday’s Spring Budget.
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SLI’s Hambi moves to neutral on Europe and takes UK underweight
Signs of an improving global growth environment have prompted Standard Life Investment MyFolio multi-manager head Bambos Hambi to re-evaluate his outlook on Europe and stick to his guns on the US and UK.
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BMO’s Potter goes neutral US post-Trump, keeps Asia overweight
BMO Global Asset Management’s Gary Potter revised his funds’ underweight US position to neutral after the election, but did not back down from his convictions on Japan and Asia despite Donald Trump’s trade rhetoric.
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Wealth managers split on opportunities presented by stalled Brexit scenario
Edinburgh-based wealth managers Simon Lloyd of Murray Asset Management and Charlotte Square Investment Managers’ William Forsythe have very different ideas about investment prospects in the United Kingdom and European Union post-Brexit, but neither think it will rival the shock of the 2008/2009 financial crisis.
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Investec warns of lower profits, despite healthy AM inflows
Investec cautioned profits would be “slightly behind the prior year”, despite positive H1 net inflows in its asset management arm.
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UK dividends trailing behind global competitors
The United Kingdom’s dividends lagged behind its G7 industrialised peers in the second quarter as the effects from weaker profits and a flailing post-Brexit pound severely hampered pay-outs.
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Gilt yield fall has pushed up duration risk sharply – Kames
With the risk/reward profile of UK gilts already skewed to the downside further yield falls would be undesirable, according to Kames Capital.
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Manager continuity key to consistent trust outperformance
Research by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has found correlation between fund manager longevity and fund consistency.
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Moody’s issues bearish forecast for UK GDP
Moody’s has issued a bearish forecast for the United Kingdom’s GDP growth over the coming two years.
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UK real estate drop may be cushioned by monetary policy easing – Aviva
The drop in UK real estate value triggered by Brexit could be mitigated by easier monetary policy, said Chris Urwin of Aviva Investors.
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UK unemployment hits 11-year low
The United Kingdom’s unemployment rate fell to an 11-year low of 5% in the three months to April, data released this morning showed.