Impax Asset Management can see opportunities in Asia but the lack of clarity on environmental issues from the new US president means a growth outlook for environment-themed investing is difficult, said Ian Simm, Impax Asset Management’s London-based chief executive.
The Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) has teamed up with the Personal Finance Society (PFS) to launch a public awareness campaign on investment mis-selling in response to increasing numbers of local investors losing their savings through high-risk investments.
Absolute return fund flows hit their lowest level in more than two years in November. Do the fading inflows suggest investors are losing patience with an asset class that is failing to deliver on its promises?
November’s surprise ban of large currency bills in India is one of the greatest single-country risks in emerging markets, Mark Mobius, executive chairman of the Templeton emerging markets group, told our sister publication Fund Selector Asia.
Blue chip stocks in Hong Kong look attractive as the MSCI moves toward a decision on including China in its emerging market indices later this year, according to fund managers.
Adviser platforms, wealth managers, and financial advisers need to keep five key technology trends in mind as they navigate the ever-shifting financial services landscape, according to Alex Kerry, head of Winterflood Business Services.
Upward revisions of corporate earnings and attractive valuations should buoy emerging market equities, according to Eastspring Investments and Schroder Investment Management.
Global growth in the second half of 2017 will help determine whether investors keep shifting assets out of bonds and into to equities, said Thomas Kwan, the chief investment officer for Hong Kong-based Harvest Global Investments.
After a long period of relative underperformance, value stocks are finally catching up. Are they the most compelling investment opportunity for 2017?
Potentially aggressive US trade policy and China’s expanding credit are top concerns, according to Richard Jerram, the Bank of Singapore’s (BoS) chief economist.
The end of a 35-year bond bull market, the rise of so-called robojobs, rapid developments in gene editing and the ‘sharing economy’ will be among the seven themes that will interest investors next year and beyond , according to Investec Wealth & Investment.
As 2016 draws to a close money managers will be putting the last of their ducks in a row before everybody takes their eye off the ball for the Christmas holidays, but this year is the right move more obvious than usual?
