Carmignac Patrimoine looks to Euro bank credit, cuts equities
Carmignac Patrimoine has shifted its focus to US treasuries and credit opportunities in European financials as the managers maintain their bearish view on equities.
Investment Strategy
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The final great investment frontier: Iran
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.
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Fed rate hikes will drive down long-term returns – Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse has released a report which forecasts real equity returns will be limited to 4-6% over the next ten years and real bond returns will be close to zero.
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Killik & Co launches multi-asset offering
Killik & Co has launched Panel Portfolio, a multi-asset service designed for investors with accounts of at least £750,000 ($1.08m, €973m).
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ANALYSIS: Beware China’s rapidly diminishing cash pile
The ‘humiliation’ of emerging markets, led by China, is currently at an extreme says Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Tilney launches smart beta-focused multi-asset range
Tilney BestInvest subsidiary, Tilney for Intermediaries, has launched a range of five risk-rated, multi-asset funds.
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This year’s pain to mark end of bear market – Toogood
Peter Toogood, investment director, City Financial, gives his view on the current investment climate.
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Analysis: The pros and cons of one of 2016’s biggest asset allocation calls
There are currently very few screaming buys in the market. Years of quantitative easing and a still rickety economic recovery have left most quality assets very fully valued and the rest seeming cheap for a reason.
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The bull and bear case for Chinese equities
Switzerland-based Falcon Private Bank has a base case of 0% returns for China equities in 2016.
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Fund selectors rediscover EM equities
Investors are often accused of buying into a trend too late, when markets have already gone up a fair bit. But Europe’s fund buyers are putting on a brave face, and are already planning to move back into emerging market equities before they bounce back.
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China at a watershed, says T Rowe Price
The renewed turmoil in China’s financial markets in the first two weeks of 2016 has undermined investor sentiment, wiping trillions of dollars off the value of global stock markets. Anh Lu, lead portfolio manager for T. Rowe Price’s Asia ex-Japan Equity Strategy fund looks at whether this could mean China faces a Japanese-style ‘lost decade’…
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Great expectations: Low risk of recession in global economy
Wells Fargo Asset Management strategist Jim Paulsen says the global economy is not at risk from a recession but from exceeding expectations of growth.