PA ANALYSIS: A good day for Eurozone investors?
Mario Draghi sounded a sombre note at today’s European Central Bank meeting, suggesting lack of structural reform and pressure from emerging market weakness were holding back the Eurozone recovery.
Analysis
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PA ANALYSIS: Wealth managers ignore ESG investing at their peril
The rising tide of regulation and ever increased scrutiny on fees has meant that scale is ever more important for wealth managers.
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PA ANALYSIS: The red flags in FTSE 100 companies
Analysts and commentators of various stripes have been falling over each other to proclaim this quarter and the start of next year to be a high volatility, high risk period.
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PA ANALYSIS: The dilemma for the UK equity income manager
The latest Capital Registrars Dividend Monitor highlighted the dilemma for UK equity income investors.
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Investors keep buying ETFs despite volatility
The pace of inflows into index-trackers shows no sign of abating. With still three months to go this year, ETFs listed in Europe have already surpassed the previous inflows record set in 2014.
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PA ANALYSIS: Is EM sentiment beginning to shift?
Emerging markets remain low down on wealth managers’ list of things to buy. But, judging by the news flow this week, they are now quite as low down as they once were and, for some, they are beginning to move much higher.
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Where now for commissions in Europe?
Full commission bans did not materialise in the agreed texts for both both MiFID 2 and the IDD. Paul Stanfield of FEIFA looks at the likely future of remuneration for financial advisers.
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PA ANALYSIS: Can consumer power prop-up UK equities much longer?
There are one or two ominous signs emerging which suggest one of the key factors underpinning UK equities funds could be close to coming undone.
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PA ANALYSIS: Why equity markets are oversold
October has seen equities rally somewhat, indicating that investors believe markets are oversold – but is this really the case?
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PA ANALYSIS: M&A frenzy should scare investors
As markets digest the news that AB InBev has agreed a deal to buy SABMiller for some £68bn, investors would be wise to consider what these kind of blockbuster deals may signify for markets.
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PA ANALYSIS: Should you be worried by Treasury’s advice review?
With the Financial Advice Market Review now fully in motion following the first consultation, advisers are bracing themselves yet another potential shift in the ever-changing industry landscape.
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PA ANALYSIS: The Fed: data-dependence or dithering indecision?
The release yesterday of the minutes of the September meetings of both US FOMC and the Bank of England’s MPC came and went with very little pomp and circumstance.
