As we enter winter there are clouds on the horizon for the United Kingdom economy and Chancellor George Osborne has to deliver his Autumn Statement against an increasingly murky backdrop.
Break a mirror, and you’ll get seven years of bad luck. Break the banking system, and it’ll take that long just for regulators to work out who’s to blame.
There have been relatively few reasons to hold gilts and other sovereign bonds in the current environment.
The latest Henderson Global Dividend index shows an increasing polarisation between emerging and developed markets, reflecting in particular the contrasting fortunes of the US and China.
The raft of recent central bank meetings in late October and early November offered clarity but few surprises on the future direction of monetary policy – the Bank of England lifted interest rates from their decade-long slump to 0.5%, while the US Federal Reserve set the stage for a further rate hike in December 2017.…
The latest BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey has found reignited appetite for risk amid expectations of a December Fed rate hike, but are investors being premature?
While commentators are quick to praise innovation within the funds space, is there a case to say that the industry is still edging towards conservatism and risk aversion?
Robots have long exerted a fascination for movie-makers, but a new report from Merrill Lynch suggests that investors should be paying just as much attention.
Whenever a high profile fund manager leaves a group, it prompts considerable hand-wringing among investors about whether they should remain invested in their funds.
ETF Securities has reported a three-fold increase in ‘retail’ investors looking to hedge their currency exposure since the start of the year.
While some have been keen to pronounce platforms to be ‘dead’ providers do not seem willing to throw in the towel and have launched a counter-attack.
The rising tide of regulation and ever increased scrutiny on fees has meant that scale is ever more important for wealth managers.
