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Square Mile Research: T Rowe Price Global Focused Equity
A conviction based global equity fund seeking growth opportunities
A strategy for the long term investing in global equities with some exposure to emerging markets
A strategy for the long term investing in global equities with some exposure to emerging markets
Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management: Responsible investing is here to stay
The movement towards more sustainable investment opportunities in 2019 is driven by both big institutional investors and millennials, and this theme is reinforced by the findings of our recent survey of high net worth individuals.
Square Mile: Talking Factsheets - Investec UK Alpha I Acc GBP Fund
Looking to provide a consistent and reliable level of outperformance.
Square Mile: Talking Factsheets - Baillie Gifford Japanese Fund
Investing in Japanese companies with above average growth
Square Mile: Talking Factsheets - Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund
An all-cap portfolio with a focus on sustainable growing companies that can be held for the longer term.
M&G: Is active investing ready to make a comeback?
A key feature of the longest equity bull market in history has been the inexorable rise of passive strategies, gathering significant assets under management at the expensive of active managers. However, can the cyclical nature of active and passive performance, combined with the rise in ESG demand restore the balance between the two?
Rathbone Investment Insights Q4 2019
Trade wars continue to cloud the outlook for businesses and consumers. Closer to home, Brexit uncertainty has gone from bad to worse. Our new Prime Minister Boris Johnsons first few weeks in office have been pretty spectacular.
Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management: Making an impact on emerging markets
Traditionally, investing in companies operating in, or with some exposure to, emerging markets as often offered investors attractive returns and an allocation to emerging markets adds useful equity diversification in a portfolio. However, these companies may not necessarily have been doing any good for the developing countries themselves.
Square Mile: Talking Factsheets - AXA Framlington UK Select Opportunities Fund
A fund invested in growing businesses, of all sizes, run by a highly experienced and impressive manager.
Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management: Why diversity and inclusion should matter to investors
If we suggested that diversity and inclusion (D&I) within a company improve its culture, performance and even national GDP, we think you would probably want to hear more. And if we explained that there are still huge improvements that need to be made in the area of diversity and inclusion, we think you would agree with us that it should be prioritised.
Orbis Investments: Man and machine: mapping risk better together
In Above-average companies, below-average prices, we walked through valuation and fundamental measures for the Global Equity Strategy, highlighting a few clusters of ideas. We believe that perspective is important. To assess a portfolios return prospects, looking at fundamental and valuation metrics is vital. But to assess a portfolios risk, another angle is also useful: how our holdings behave.
Schroders: Five reasons why global cities are the ultimate investment super-trend
Cities are becoming more important than countries, with their success determined by innovation, efficiency and the clustering of industries. What does this mean for investors?
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: Be clear, be trustworthy
Brits are on board with investing sustainably to make the world a better place, but impenetrable jargon and complicated processes are preventing them from doing so. We need to try harder to speak their language, says Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund manager David Harrison.
M&G: Central banks turn on the taps
Central banks globally have turned on the taps, keeping a lid on interest rates and bond yields. In this months video, Investment Specialist, Kirsty Clark discusses the recent round of QE from central banks as dark clouds loom over the global economy.
Schroders: The fund industrys wake-up call: how investors want us to act
Jessica Ground, Global Head of Stewardship, explains why for companies, sustainability is no longer a nice to have, its an imperative.
M&G: Lots of noise, but its not the end of the world
To date, it has been another interesting year for financial markets. Investors have settled into a scenario of loose monetary policy, which have eased fears of an imminent recession, although volatility remains.
Schroders: How will today's consumption tax rise affect Japan's economy?
In a long-awaited move for Japanese economists, investors and policymakers, today Japan raised Value-Added-Tax (VAT) otherwise known as the consumption tax from 8% to 10%.
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: The benefits of DFM to an advisers working week
Lifting the burdensome task of managing client investments from an advisers shoulders has an undeniable effect on the structure and goals of their average working week, according to the Rathbones Value of Discretionary Fund Management (DFM) report.
Invesco: US: Facing a slowdown or recession?
The dreaded R word is garnering more attention with the US Federal Reserve in dovish mode and bond markets in a state of flux following the recent inversion of the yield curve. Is the economic data ringing any alarm bells?
Aviva Investors sustainable income & growth fund webinar earn CPD points
As interest rates remain close to rock-bottom levels and retirement journeys become ever-more complex, the need for reliable income solutions has never been greater. In this environment, bottom-up security selection provides an alternative approach to conventional multi-asset income portfolios.
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: Time to buckle up
New threats require new defences. Our head of multi-asset investments David Coombs explains how hes filling the sandbags to protect his funds against a populist storm.
Invesco: Culture clashes and windscreen smashes
The first Chinese A share we owned in the Invesco Asian Fund (UK) was a company called Fuyao Glass. Although we no longer own Fuyao, two other Chinese auto parts companies with clear parallels Huayu and Minth are currently held in this fund.
Rathbones: The value of DFM
While partnering with a Discretionary Fund Manager is an established investment discipline, theres been virtually no hard data on how advisers whove adopted it have performed against non-adopters.
M&G Meet the Managers 2019: Last chance to register
Register now for the M&G Meet the Managers live stream on Thursday 26 September to hear from six fund managers who will share their insights on equities, fixed income and commercial property.
Schroders: Has value investing been disrupted?
Disruption is a major theme in stock markets today with companies such as Amazon and Uber challenging the traditional approach to their respective industries. Such companies are an example of so-called "growth" stocks, with investors attracted by their prospects for expansion and future revenue growth.
Seneca: Active management and the predictability of markets #2: Robert Shiller
This is the second in a series of four of my investment letters dedicated to active management, focussing on some of the key figures involved in the study of market predictabilities. Having last month written about the father of modern finance, Eugene Fama, this month I take a look at Yale economist, Robert Shiller.
Baillie Gifford: Island Time: Slow Bond Investing
Torcail Stewart, investment manager in Baillie Giffords Credit team, wants those who are investing in bonds to slow down and take some tips from Island living.
Square Mile Research: A Spotlight On: Global Equity Income
As at the end of December 2018, the IA Global Equity Income sector comprised of 56 funds with combined assets in excess of £19bn. To meet the IAs sector requirements, funds must achieve a yield premium to that of the MSCI World index and allocate at least 80% of their assets to global equities. In practice, the sector includes funds which seek to deliver multiple outcomes, and is one that we would further categorise into three sub-groups; funds that seek to provide a yield in excess of the index (including enhanced income strategies), funds that seek to grow their dividend distributions over time and those which seek to provide a level of total return, when income is reinvested.
Prudential Multi Multi - Asset Investment Update
Join Phil Butler, Multi Asset Portfolio Manager at M&GPrudential Treasury and Investment Office, for a reflection on market performance across 2019 so far. In this video, he also looks at the Feds rate cuts, notable investment activity across Q2 and also outlines if theres cause for concern when it comes to the mixed macro picture thats appearing.
Aviva Investors: Investors must hold bad bosses to account
Institutional shareholders need to be as agile and active as private equity in dealing with failures of leadership.
Aegon: Multi-asset, models or DFMs?
In house or external governance? Multi-asset models or DFMs? How are retiring clients investing? Understand the platform investment trends report to find out.
You are invited to the Invesco 2019 Investment Intelligence Seminars - 80 mins structured CPD
Register now for Round 3 of the Invesco 2019 Investment Intelligence Seminars, running from September to December with over 70 venues and dates to chose from. These are amongst the most popular events in the market - spaces go fast, so make sure you sign up!
Baillie Gifford: Finding Europes Hidden Champions
There are lots of reasons not to invest in Europe. Its economic growth is uninspiring and much of its stock index is made up of bureaucratic corporate dinosaurs. But beyond the negative headlines, there are still exciting investment opportunities to found, including potential tenbaggers, companies whose share price could increase ten-fold. Stephen Paice discusses in the latest episode of Baillie Giffords podcast Short Briefings on Long Term Thinking.
Aviva Investors: BP vote demonstrates power of engagement
As climate change rises up the political agenda throughout the West and beyond, shareholders have an important role to play in limiting global fossil fuel consumption by pressuring oil companies to amend their strategies, argues Sora Utzinger.
Rathbones In the KNOW blog: No-deal panic in Purton
As Brexit uncertainty descends into the ridiculous, head of multi-asset investments David Coombs finds himself in the strange position of hoping for a no-deal to bring some clarity.
M&G: Falling yields has gold got its shine back?
Gold has been trending upwards since the fourth quarter sell-off and is now at its highest level since 2013. In this months video, Investment Director, Ritu Vohora looks at the driving forces behind investors renewed interest in the yellow metal.
Baillie Gifford: Space- the final investment frontier
Entrepreneurs on the west coast of America are stepping up spending on space. Luke Ward, investment manager, discusses how this new space age might impact investment in this episode of Baillie Giffords podcast Short Briefings on Long Term Thinking.
Square Mile Research: A spotlight on: Emerging Market Debt Sector
The funds in this sector may invest in the debt of emerging market governments and corporates issued in both hard (developed market) currencies, and local (domestic market) currencies. The yield on these bonds tends to offer a significant premium to the yields available on equivalent debt issued in developed markets as shown in figure 1, although it brings with it commensurate risks.
Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust plc factsheet is now available
The value of Seneca - applying a value ethos across a range of assets: why restrict good thinking to just one asset class when it can be applied to many?