British Virgin Islands (BVI) Finance poaches Jersey Finance’s former business development director as Mercer Jelf announces a new regional leader. NN Investment Partners makes a new appointment to push its alternative platform while discretionary fund manager Creechurch Capital hires an analyst to its investment team.
Japanese equities could be preferable to eurozone equities due to higher corporate profitability and greater political certainty, said NN Investment Partners.
Emerging market currencies are set to strengthen even further despite the significant appreciation from lows this year, said NN Investment Partners.
Argentina raised around $16.5bn on 18 April in its first sovereign bond sale in 15 years after a US judge lifted injunctions stopping the country from raising funds. But rampant inflation, job losses, and domestic strife spell trouble for this Cinderella story.
