Whilst we’ve all been focused on Murry vs Raonic, May vs Leadsom, Hamilton vs Rosberg and Corbyn vs Eagle, something quite exciting happened in Japan this weekend: Shinzo Abe won a sweeping victory in Japan’s upper house elections and now holds a ‘supermajority’ that supports a constitutional revision.
The popularity of strategic bond funds is partly predicated on the go-anywhere nature of the sector. But, says BlackRock’s Ben Edwards, this does not mean “go everywhere randomly at different times.
UK robo-advisers are ‘wired’ to lose money and most will go bust before acquiring the sizeable assets under management needed to survive, a scathing new report has warned.
At first glance, it seems large healthcare companies have lost interest in M&A. According to Dealogic, year-to-date deal volumes are 25% lower than for the same period last year.
James Klempster, head of portfolio management at Momentum Global Investment Management discusses everything from where he is seeing value and the necessity to take risk to geopolitics and gold
Markets seem largely to be of the view that inflation is a thing of the past, but not all the evidence fits
Since the referendum announcement an enormous amount has been written seeking to identify the relative merits, benefits and costs of EU membership.
With sovereign bond yields back down to record lows, it again casts the spotlight on how to invest for a defensive client.
New research by Morningstar challenges assumptions about the threat ETFs pose to the stability of high yield markets, especially during times of crisis.
Some form of state-provided consumer protection covering financial products is needed to overcome the “advice gap” in the UK, says Simon Willoughby, head of Proposition for Axa Wealth International.
The private equity sub-sector’s median discount widened out from 21.8% at the end of December 2015 to as much as 28.1% at the beginning of March 2016.
Growth stocks have done rather well in relative terms in recent years, while many of the traditional value sectors have been hit hard, leading asset allocators to question whether or not rotation is in order.
