Has the e-commerce boom made warehouses and distribution sites hot property?
CBRE estimates Europe will need to find 300 million square feet of warehouse space to accommodate e-commerce explosion
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Growing demand for pick and mix portfolios set to transform MPS market
Trend already playing out in asset management with the rise of direct indexing funds
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Tapering talk set to dominate Jackson Hole but can Fed avoid another tantrum?
‘Markets are trusting the Fed to achieve a goal it has proven itself incapable of twice in recent memory’
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Drive for flexible working pushes junior bankers towards fund management
Stressed-out junior bankers want a better work/life balance
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High active share key to beating passives as value rally stalls
Just a quarter of active funds outperformed their passive counterparts in Q2
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Blackrock moves overweight European equities despite industry’s downbeat economic sentiment
Fund buyers meanwhile seem split on the prospects for Europe’s equity market
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Platform pricing ‘should not be a race to the bottom’
‘Platforms need to be profitable to be able to continually evolve their propositions’
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To infinity and beyond: Is space tech the next big investment opportunity?
Commercial space travel fuels interest in nascent sector but fund buyers urge caution
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Will tech rally run out of steam as hybrid working becomes the norm?
The ‘easy money’ has already been made but shift away from five-day office era opens up opportunities for new digital disruptors
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Appetite for thematic funds surges as investors hunt for ESG-friendly solutions
AUM for thematic funds has more than tripled to $595bn over the three years to March 2021, according to Morningstar
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New research reveals crypto curiosity in financial advice sector is here to stay
Three quarters of advisers say their clients have asked about investing in cryptocurrency, according to an AJ Bell survey
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Time for investors to step up in fight against climate change
UN’s damning IPCC report found global warming of between 1.5C and 2C will be exceeded in the current century
