Growth boom attracts investors to EM passives
Fund selectors have been lured to passive strategies in emerging markets over the past 12 months after soaring technology stocks have driven the growth index sky high.
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Pensions industry shuns cash-poor millennials
Millennials have largely been left in the lurch by pension providers who assume they are too cash poor or disinterested to engage with investing for their future.
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Fund houses named and shamed for failing to speak plain English
Asset managers’ failure to speak plain English has been blamed on increasing compliance requirements as a report names and shames asset managers that use the most obscure language, long sentences and jargon on their websites.
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Ominous outlook for split bond and equity portfolios
A passive portfolio of 50% bonds and 50% equities faces negative annualised returns, according to a report by Pictet Asset Management.
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Investors cool on China despite buoyant returns
The risk of a trade war between China and the US has fuelled investor uncertainty. One fund selector has dropped their only China equity focused fund while another portfolio manager has reduced his China allocation.
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ETFs could spark next financial crisis
An economics consultancy has warned that ETFs contain a design flaw and could well be the catalyst for the next financial crisis.
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Theresa May could raid pensions for Brexit promise
Abolishing higher rate pension tax relief and upper earnings limit on national insurance both on the table
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Vanguard and Blackrock exposed to US child detention camps
Blackrock has blamed index tracking products for its large stake in a contractor involved in child detention centres in the US, while Vanguard, along with several active investors, has been silent on its exposure to the political controversy.
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Adviser profitability thrives in a post-RDR world
The good times are rolling for financial advisers, at least, that is, according to the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent Data Bulletin.
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Has fund manager pay gone too far?
The huge salaries awarded in the asset management industry could have a damaging effect on investor returns.
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SJP unlikely to dump the Woodford gravy train
St James’s Place’s partnership with Neil Woodford is unlikely to end any time soon, despite many discretionary fund managers and platforms dropping the star fund manager on underperformance.
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Commodities poised to finally join the bull market
After a torrid nine years of losing investors money in a raging bull market, commodities could finally start to see a change in fortune.
