The recent release of the UK’s Financial Advice and Market Review (FAMR) might not have had much impact elsewhere in Europe but perhaps it should have done, says Paul Stanfield, secretary general of the European Federation of Financial Advisers and Financial Intermediaries (FECIF)
Growth investing has had a stellar few years but, amid talk of more favourable conditions for value investors, there is little evidence yet to suggest the tide has turned.
Like ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and Starsky & Hutch, UK Equity Income has hosted its fair share of rule-breaking mavericks, the question is should we accommodate or banish them?
With UK-style retail distribution review (RDR) regulation sweeping across international investment markets, and the trend towards better customer outcomes only set to intensify, advisers need to fully embrace this change and embrace it early, says Bill Vasilieff, chief executive of Novia Global.
Asian equities have had a rough three or four years but with long-term, top-down influences unlikely to change it is time to look for equally long-term, bottom-up fund solutions.
One of the reasons a lot of people dislike clowns is the edge of panic to the smiles they paint on.
A report from PwC suggests that pay and rations will change dramatically as our industry – and the pressures on it – continue to evolve.
New Investment Association chief executive Chris Cummings has certainly got his work cut out when he takes the reins in the third quarter of this year.
Janet Yellen’s Economic Club of New York speech provided a timely reminder that nobody can move markets like central bankers.
Gold has had a good start to 2016 but three months of positive fund returns and an upwardly mobile price are not enough to badge it as a safe haven.
Money has poured into high yield bond funds at a rare pace over the past month but is this a sound move based on merit, or a case of return-starved investors clutching at straws?
Whether you support or oppose chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne and his party, it is hard to argue he is not a shrewd operator and a safe pair of hands for the British economy.
