ANALYSIS: Hard truths of a hard Brexit – you could foot the bill
Asset manager BlueBay has hit the headlines for shorting sterling on predictions of a likely ‘hard’ Brexit, but as an industry are we still burying our heads in the sand?
Investment Strategy
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Investors put their money where their mouth is
European investors did in April what could, or perhaps even should, be expected from them: they sold US equities and bought the assets they said they would.
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Majority of emerging markets funds in Asia underperform
More than half of emerging market equity funds available for sale in Hong Kong and Singapore underperform the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, FE data shows.
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AJ Bell grows revenues amid record new client sign-ups
Online investment platform AJ Bell has reported rapid growth in its revenues after it added almost 12,000 customers in the space of six months.
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Regulatory delays bite Philippine’s fund industry
Local fund managers in the Philippines are still waiting for a series of key regulatory changes that could drive industry growth, according to Valerie Pama, Manila-based president of Sun Life Asset Management in the Philippines.
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ANALYSIS: EM outperformance – will the consensus hold?
There seems to be an investor consensus that emerging market stocks will continue to outperform both in the short and medium term.
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WisdomTree offers short-duration SHAG to investors
WisdomTree has united with Bloomberg Barclays to launch SHAG, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) targeting short-duration US fixed income.
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What do investors use ETFs for?
The use of index trackers by professional investors has skyrocketed in recent years. Investors have been attracted by the easy access to ETFs, their transparency and of course their low fees. But what do they exactly use ETFs for? Greenwich Associates asked 132 institutional investors the question.
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Chinese robo-advisers looking at data mining to stay ahead
Chinese robo-advisers are likely to use data to personalise their services, bringing clients closer to a private banking experience, according to Gregory Van Den Bergh of Chinese fintech developer Micai.
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Millionaire investors short-termism due to ‘information overload’
More than two-thirds of high net worth investors say they suffer from ‘information overload’ and admit being easily distracted by short-term developments in politics and the economy.
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Best and worst funds in Asia in April 2017
JP Morgan, Schroders, UBS, Castlestone, Kotak, SLI had funds among the best and the worst performers over the last three years. Our sister publication Fund Selector Asia (FSA) takes a look at the data on funds available in Hong Kong and Singapore.
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ANALYSIS: Are platforms facing an ‘existential crisis’?
As certain platform businesses boomed in Q1 with year-on-year sales over 30% higher, others posted huge losses, begging the question: are they facing an “existential crisis”?