As South African financial advisers await the election of president Jacob Zuma’s successor with bated breath, where this political uncertainty leaves the implementation of the Twin Peaks reforms and the next phases of RDR is anyone’s guess.
Regulatory changes proposed by the UAE Insurance Authority could completely change the way business is done in the region.
Shifting demographics and regulation have created greater overlap between the domestic and expat advisory markets, with firms across Asia eyeing opportunities on both sides of the street.
Most asset classes will provide negative real returns from now on, but there is one exception to this rule, according to US asset manager GMO.
Having borne the brunt of the media scrutiny following the Paradise Papers hack, key figures in the international life insurance industry have hit back and defended the Isle of Man and other international financial centres.
This year alone, the Pimco Income fund has attracted more than €28bn in net new money from European investors, according to Morningstar data. This is almost half of all net inflows into unconstrained bond funds this year, and has made the $64.3bn (€54.6bn) strategy the world’s largest actively managed fund. There are few, if any…
The nine-year bull market is going into extra time now, thinks Robeco. A real possibility is that the match will end in a sudden death, by a major world leader’s own goal. And that’s someone who’s fonder of football than Donald Trump.
With most global fixed income markets priced for perfection, investors are flocking to the one yield hold-out left: emerging market debt. But are investors really being compensated for the risk?
An upward trend in interest rates does not automatically equate to negative bond returns, despite the commonly-held market belief that it does, Blackrock has argued.
Wednesday 8 November marks the one-year anniversary of the shock election of Donald Trump as president of the US. One-year on, and several thousand tweets later, we spoke to three investors to gauge their view on just what he has achieved since.
For the first time in a decade, T Rowe Price’s global equity strategy has an overweight versus the benchmark to Japan equities. Laurence Taylor, portfolio specialist, explains why.
US equity fund managers believe the S&P 500 can continue to add to a 26% rise over the past year. But barring good news to come out of Washington, there is little to cheer about for expensive US equities.
