The last time the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, Daniel Craig had just taken on the mantle of James Bond and Sylvester Stallone had just successfully resurrected the Rocky franchise from the ignominy of 1990’s Rocky V.
Greg Bennett, fund manager at Argonaut Capital, gives his view on the dynamics behind the current oil price.
The departure of Mark Harries from Aberdeen has brought the spotlight back on the world of multi-managers. But it is one aspect in particular that’s the big talking point.
Structured notes continue to remain a popular alternative investment among offshore investors, although it remains increasingly difficult to decide between which ones to choose given the complexity of how they can be constructed, says Harpreet Sajjan, managing director of S7 Capital Management.
ECB President Mario Draghi disappointed markets on Thursday. While the Bank delivered a 10 basis point cut to the deposit rate to an historic -0.3%, and extended the deadline of its asset purchase programme by six months, it kept the main refinancing and marginal lending rates steady at 5 and 30 basis points respectively.
Chancellor George Osborne showed a steely determination to tackle some of the cosier aspects of the lives of the wealthy in this year’s Autumn Statement. Tax evasion, capital gains tax and second homes came under scrutiny in an otherwise relatively benign budget.
As we enter winter there are clouds on the horizon for the United Kingdom economy and Chancellor George Osborne has to deliver his Autumn Statement against an increasingly murky backdrop.
Break a mirror, and you’ll get seven years of bad luck. Break the banking system, and it’ll take that long just for regulators to work out who’s to blame.
There have been relatively few reasons to hold gilts and other sovereign bonds in the current environment.
The latest Henderson Global Dividend index shows an increasing polarisation between emerging and developed markets, reflecting in particular the contrasting fortunes of the US and China.
The raft of recent central bank meetings in late October and early November offered clarity but few surprises on the future direction of monetary policy – the Bank of England lifted interest rates from their decade-long slump to 0.5%, while the US Federal Reserve set the stage for a further rate hike in December 2017.…
The latest BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey has found reignited appetite for risk amid expectations of a December Fed rate hike, but are investors being premature?
