Pictet Asset Management makes two new hires, bolstering its Hong Kong multi-asset team and its UK distribution business while Intertrust Jersey announces a round of promotions. Nucleus appoints a technology stalwart to its board of directors as Sandaire poaches an ex-Tilney man.
The expensive valuations of US equities have made Luca Paolini, Pictet Asset Management’s London-based chief strategist, urge investors to be very cautious.
Pictet has launched a robotics-themed fund, which is tied to cyclicality and capex spending and linked to a country’s economic health, according to Peter Lingen, the asset manager’s Geneva-based senior manager for thematic equities.
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Pictet Asset Management has added a long/short global equity fund to its total return range.
The dollar has rallied in recent days as investors believe stronger US GDP growth and Fed rate hikes will push the greenback up. But markets are ignoring the forces that are likely to drag the dollar down in the longer term.
Pictet Asset Management has launched a multi-asset income fund, its first domiciled in Hong Kong, and has high expectations for emerging Asia equities over the next five years.
Pictet Asset Management is overweight gold as concerns grow over political risks and the US dollar, said chief strategist Luca Paolini.
Water is not only essential for life, but also for the expansion of industries and economies, according to Simon Gottelier, senior investment manager at Pictet Asset Management.
For the next five years investors with multi asset portfolios need to be thinking in terms of a 2.5-3.0% real rate of return and even then they will need to hold a lot more high risk assets, according to Pictet Asset Management.
Amundi announces a high-profile global advisory board, while Pictet names ex-Goldman Sachs director Dominique Joories to head its Singaporean banking unit. Axa reveals Jean-Laurent Granier, the chief executive of the group’s Mediterranean and Latam divisions, will step down next month while prominent figures from the UK’s insurance industry join trade body ABI.
Positive developments such as evidence of an underlying improvement in industrial production and exports in Asia are luring investors back into emerging markets, said Pictet Asset Management’s chief strategist Luca Paolini.
