It is perhaps appropriate that the first PA Podcast was recorded on Halloween, as our first guest, Tilney Bestinvest, investment strategy director, Ben Seager-Scott isn’t entirely optimistic about the outlook for the global economy.
The Bank of England eschewed any great fireworks today, releasing the doves instead.
ETF Securities has reported a three-fold increase in ‘retail’ investors looking to hedge their currency exposure since the start of the year.
Numbers from HSBC, UBS and Standard Chartered out this week have continued what has been a rather underwhelming earnings season so far for the banking sector.
While some have been keen to pronounce platforms to be ‘dead’ providers do not seem willing to throw in the towel and have launched a counter-attack.
It has become fashionable for central bankers around the world to strike a gloomier tone in recent meetings.
As expected the FOMC voted overwhelmingly to keep US interest rates on hold yesterday, with Treasuries falling, but what next for bond yields?
Emerging markets may look cheap relative to their history, but investors have been slow to call the nadir while there remains no obvious sign of economic improvement.
With market confidence still fragile after the China-inspired slump, the last thing UK equities funds needed was soft economic data to be released.
For what is traditionally a highly secretive event, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee’s fifth plenary session taking place this week is liable to have a pretty high media profile.
Platforms have not yet lived up to their potential to be genuinely transformative for advisers, finds a new report from the Lang Cat. It says the promise to make the delivery of advice more efficient and responsive has, at best, been only partially fulfilled.
Markets at summer’s end were as volatile as the seasonal British weather. But how can investors prepare themselves for even stormier times?
