PA ANALYSIS: Are we heading for a repeat of ’08?
You often hear the old adage “it’s different this time”, but 10 years on from the start of the global financial crisis, are we actually at risk of repeating the same mistakes?
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PA ANALYSIS: Is the UK equity income love affair over?
With assets under management totalling £63.5bn, the IA UK Equity Income sector has long been a favourite of investors hunting yield in a low interest rate environment.
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PA ANALYSIS: Why professional investors buy multi-asset funds
Multi-asset funds have been an investor favourite for years, but why would a professional investor invest in these one-stop shop funds?
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PA ANALYSIS: Make-or-break time for The People’s Trust
Daniel Godfrey is on a charm offensive. With the initial public offering (IPO) of The People’s Trust pencilled in for 7 September, he is busy preparing to float the trust on two stock exchanges.
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PA ANALYSIS: What has inspired the active fund renaissance?
It was a bad time to be an active manager in 2016, the year of Brexit and Trump, with underperformance plaguing funds as passives tracked the market higher and higher.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is the BoE’s ‘failure to launch’ wise or misguided?
The investment industry has been venting its frustration over the Bank of England’s “wait and see” stance to a rate hike for some time now. But are the calls for hawkish action actually justified?
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PA ANALYSIS: Why tech is not all about growth
In the not too distant past, the notion of investing in technology for anything but capital growth would have been scoffed at.
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PA ANALYSIS: The Senior Managers and Certification Regime explained
Portfolio advisers are to be subject to a new regulatory regime initially devised to make senior managers in banks responsible for the actions of staff, but soon to be applied to staff in 47,000 financial services firms.
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PA ANALYSIS: Could AstraZeneca be the next big takeover target?
Witnessing AstraZeneca’s share price dive Thursday morning has given some investors a sense of déjà vu and sparked ideas that Britain’s second largest pharma firm could be vulnerable to another takeover bid.
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Monier backs long-term EM growth story
Emerging markets should deliver roughly twice the growth of developed markets and the differential is set to grow, the head of investments at Lombard Odier Private Bank says.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is Aramco an attractive opportunity?
The Financial Conduct Authority has raised eyebrows in some City circles by clearing the obstacles to a partial listing of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Aramco in the UK.
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PA ANALYSIS: St James’s Place – is the criticism valid?
As St James’s Place Wealth suffers another week of grim headlines about its charges and advice model, is now the time for rival IFAs and restricted advisers to win business and clients off what is arguably the market leader?
