Sometimes in global financial markets, change can be brutal as the market adjusts to a completely new reality. The second half of 2014 was one of these periods and witnessed the beginning of what would become one of the largest declines in global oil prices on record.
Fund Selector Asia compares the First State Indian Subcontinent Fund with the Matthews Asia India Fund.
Peter Toogood, investment director, City Financial, gives his view on the current investment climate.
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.
The FTSE’s felled and the bears are back out in force, so could now be a good time to entrust your wealth with a dedicated value investor?
It has been quite a start to the year in financial markets and the initial impulse many will have is to batten down the hatches and try to weatherproof portfolios.
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’…
Since Markowitz, multi-asset investing has been increasingly “en vogue”. The other trait that has caught the imagination – as well the attention of the regulators – is risk assessment.
Japanese equities are enjoying a place in the rising sun in terms of the preferences of many investors, but is this a sound decision destined to yield rewards or an act of desperation?
After a spectacularly dismal start to the year last week, all eyes turn this week to the start of corporate earnings season.
With the news that the FCA’s search for its next chief is ongoing, here’s our crack at what the job description might look like.
The news that Brent Crude oil slipped below $35 a barrel for the first time since 2004 on Wednesday should come as little surprise.
