UK investors in balanced portfolios could lose as much as 20% following a significant market correction as financial advisers gravitate towards higher risk profiles within their standard portfolios, according to Natixis Investment Managers’ latest UK Portfolio Barometer.
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…
You are more likely to be “hit by lightning” than see returns that beat inflation and cash from a multi-asset fund, according to fresh research raising the debate into cost effectiveness once again.
Neil Woodford has added UK media giant ITV to his income focus fund claiming its current value is an “attractive entry point”.
Most UK investors don’t think they know enough about the risks to invest in fast-growing developing countries, according to a study by the Templeton Emerging Market Investment Trust, which used to be run by Mark Mobius.
A sector that is being disrupted is European consumer staples, said Todd, who leads a six-man London-based team who look at European equities. Large caps such as Nestle and the big tobacco firms, for example, have historically been reliable performers, “but we think that they are too expensive for the growth they deliver. You pay…
An economic downturn affecting most developed markets will occur in 2019, Aegon Asset Management has predicted.
Switzerland’s financial regulator has shut down three companies for conning millions of francs out of hundreds of investors by selling a fake cryptocurrency and says it has 11 similar companies in its sights.
Fears the globe is coming to the end of an eight-year bull market are based on a complete misconception according to former Neptune fund manager, Felix Wintle.
Manchester United has been added to Nick Train’s Finsbury Growth & Income Trust, his first new holding in two years.
Neil Woodford’s flagship Equity Income fund has been removed from FE’s approved list amid concerns over its “illiquid” investments and replaced by his recently launched Income Focus fund.
Negative updates and rocky company accounting during quiet summer months should not be a sole signal to sell a stock, says SVM Asset Management’s Margaret Lawson.
