Fixed income funds saw outflows of £267m in January 2016, the Investment Association said on Monday, which accounted for more than half the total outflows of £463m ($642.5m, €589m) recorded for the month.
Keeping up with the waves of financial services regulation globally is not always easy for advisers – but standing still in the face of change is not an option.
Among the ‘factions’ fighting for investors’ attention around the globe, passive investing has see extraordinary growth over recent years, says Graham Bentley, director of Marlborough International.
There are few things one can be definitive about at the moment, especially within financial markets. That journalists (and most likely the public) are going to be heartily sick of talking about Brexit in four months, is perhaps one of the few things everyone can agree on.
2015 was the weakest year for US equities since 2008, the exception being the technology sector that was buoyed by the ‘Fangs’ – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
Volatility is a word that seems to have strongly negative connotations whether you are talking about markets or somebody’s personality.
The United States accounts for around half of the global equities index so whether you like the asset class or not you can never ignore it, or eliminate it from a portfolio.
Even by the very nature of its name, HSBC has always been the most Asian-facing of the multinational super banks, so why does it want to extend its stay in London?
While the first two ‘arrows’ of Abenomics have helped boost Japanese equity performance and devalued the yen, the jury is still out on whether the strategy is succeeding. Much will depend on the third arrow of structural reform.
What was viewed as a sign of desperation by many when the Bank of Japan cut rates well into negative territory at the end of January has been followed by a poor economic growth number.
Oliver Bell, manager of the T. Rowe Price Frontier Markets Equity Fund and T. Rowe Price Middle East & Africa Equity Fund recently visited Iran. Here he outlines why many of the assumptions investors have about the country may need a major upgrade.
The ‘humiliation’ of emerging markets, led by China, is currently at an extreme says Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
