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Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust factsheet Experts in Multi-Asset Value Investing
Please find the latest fund factsheet for the Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust plc. We hope you find it useful. Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust plc If you would like to know more about our multi-asset value investing approach or have any other questions, please see our website or contact us for further details.
Schroders: Rising rates, trade wars and China: have the three bears finally come home?
Please join Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist and Strategist, as he examines where he and the Economics team are seeing smoke and where there might actually be fire as this unprecendeted "Goldilocks" economic cycle continues to chart new territory.
Aviva Investor: Canadian infrastructure: brave new world?
Investors have high hopes for Canadas PPP infrastructure market, but can it deliver the opportunities investors crave?
Investec Wealth & Investment: Market Commentary May 2018
Market Commentary provides a general overview of topical market and economic issues, written by our Head of Investment Strategy, John Wyn-Evans. Here's an excerpt from the latest issue.
Schroders Live - how will climate change impact your investments?
23 May 2018 3.00pm Please join our live video event where our panel of experts will be debating the impact of climate change and outlining what can be done about it.
M&G: Earnings season as good as it gets?
Are we at peak profits? Is this as good as it gets? Ritu Vohora, Investment Director, reflects on Q1 earnings so far.
Aviva Investors: When is a trade war not a trade war?
The latest feud between the US and China has sparked fears of an all-out trade war, with much at stake for both countries and the wider world.
Investec Wealth & Investment: Questions from a China sceptic
Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy. This week, our Head of Investment Strategy, John Wyn-Evans, questions our Head of Research (and self-confessed China optimist), John Haynes about the country's investment opportunities...
Aviva Investors: High yield: going global
A jump in interest rates could swamp high yield returns, but a global approach and a focus on short duration can help weather a rising tide.
Prudential: Why OEICs are great and other matters
OEICs are great, they can be practically tax free for some, generating a natural income where its required. That could be interest or dividends or both. Withdrawals over the natural income may be taken tax efficient too. You can even cash them in tax free.
Aviva Investors: Co-working space: technology driving disruption
Demand for flexible office space is growing as technology disrupts working practices and business structures, says Tom Goodwin.
Sales in mixed assets continue to boom, FundsNetwork data reveals
The Mixed Investment 40-85% sector held the top spot in the sales chart in March for the second month in a row, according to the latest FundsNetworkTM data.
M&G Investment: Rising interest rates and infrastructure
What is the impact of rising interest rates on infrastructure? In this 2 minute update, Alex Araujo, Fund Manager of M&Gs Global Listed Infrastructure Fund, discusses the impact of rising interest rates on listed infrastructure, what type of infrastructure tend to do well in this environment and what this means for client portfolios.
Seneca IM latest factsheets Experts in Multi-Asset Value Investing
Latest Factsheets from Seneca Investment Managers Please find the latest fund factsheets for the LF Seneca Diversified Income Fund and LF Seneca Diversified Growth Fund. We hope you find them useful. For professional investors only. LF Seneca Diversified Income Fund LF Seneca Diversified Growth Fund
M&G Investments: Is it time to go fully short on European duration?
After a stellar 2017, eurozone economic data releases have disappointed recently. This weeks BVTV discusses the regions prospects, focusing on the key learnings from the latest ECB meeting, why the US Treasury sell-off has so far failed to have a material impact on European rates, and implications for credit markets.
Aviva Investors: Interesting times: the advantages of active fixed income
Opportunity knocks for fixed income investors who are not forced to hug market indices.
Rathbones: The unreliable boyfriend
There is a school of thought that says monetary policy has to shock to be effective. This argument usually harks back to 1979 when Paul Volcker took the reins at the Federal Reserve (Fed) and aggressively raised interest rates against the markets expectations. Within six months, the US prime lending interest rate had almost doubled to 21.5%. Inflation, running hot at 14% when he took the job, was below 3% three years later. Markets didnt see it coming and many investors particularly bondholders were routed. It was painful, but by getting control of the money supply inflation was tamed.
Investec wealth & Investment:
Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy.
Aviva Investors: Schemes need a clear strategy for managing longevity risk
Increasing longevity is an important risk facing the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes. By offering a promise for life to members, they bear the risk that members live longer than expected.
M&G: BVTV: Then and now
Can a chart from 2007 predict the next big credit sell-off? Jim Leaviss, Head of Retail Fixed Interest and Laura Frost debate on BVTV.
Robos need humans: Insight - April 2018
Robo-platforms have begun hiring humans to supplement their online offerings and provide advice. This could be more of a threat to the existing advice sector than pure automated services. There is, however, an opportunity for advisers to flip the script and change the game. If robos are now adding humans, advisers need to think about supplementing their offerings with digital automation.
Seneca: Peter Elston - Monthly Investment Letter
In this months letter, Peter explains why strong economies are not on the whole good for stock markets. You can find more of Peters thoughts, including a review and outlook section, here.
Aviva Investors: East vs West: The battle for innovation
Once dismissed as the home of copycats and knock-offs, China is now a hotbed of technological innovation and fast catching up with the West.
Aviva Investors: Can Abenomics survive without Abe?
Shinzo Abes policy programme has boosted growth and lifted Japan out of its deflationary slump. But a growing political scandal could prevent the prime minister from finishing the job.
Schroders: Economic and Strategy Viewpoint
This month we look at the factors that might end one of the longest US economic expansions in history. We alos examine the drivers behind rising US Treasury yields and how China is positioning itself for slower growth.
Don't miss M&G and Prudential at the Learning Matters Seminars in May!
Don't miss the upcoming Learning Matters Seminars in May, designed to give you 90 minutes of structured CPD. With speakers from M&G and Prudential, the event will cover:
Long-Investec Wealth & Investment: Long-Term Thinking Weekly Digest
Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy.
Mixed Investments reclaim the top spot, FundsNetwork sales data reveals
The Mixed Investment 40-85% Shares sector took the number one spot in the sector sales chart in February, the latest FundsNetworkTM data has revealed.
Aviva Investors house view Q2 2018
The intelligence that guides our investment decisions. Read our teams collective insight on how market volatility, trade tensions and Chinese reforms may impact the outlook for financial markets in the coming months.
Legg Mason: Holy cow
2017 was another wonderful year for dividend increases and Legg Mason affiliate Clearbridge Investments continue to expect dividends to rise in line with corporate earnings.
M&G: Can the UK government meet its housing pledge?
The current Conservative Government has pledged to meet its 2015 manifesto commitment to deliver one million homes by the end of 2020 and to deliver half a million more by the end of 2022. For this to be met, completions would need to rise to levels not seen since the late 1970s.
Looking ahead as central banks look up Rathbones
The threats of higher inflation and rising interest rates spooked global stock markets in February, pushing up government bond yields. We expect the trend of rising yields to persist and be a dominant investment theme over the coming year, with important implications for equities.
Investec Wealth & Investment: More Bark Than Bite? Weekly Digest
Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy.
Schroders: What is Blockchain and why will it revolutionise business?
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin get all the attention (and notoriety), and in this article, we discuss why it is actually the underlying Blockchain technology that we believe will revolutionise global business.
Rathbones: Doomed to repeat
Jay Powell made his first speech as Chair of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) on Friday. It was a little drowned out though by a week drenched in ever-increasing tariff threats between the worlds two largest exporters.
M&G: Trump wars: is Trumps bark worse than his bite?
Concerns have shifted to the potential for corporate profits to be undermined if a trade war erupts with China announcing a new round of tariffs on US products.
Rathbones: A cold, wet quarter
The UK was the biggest loser in a tough quarter for global equity markets. Despite a wave of bad news for many of the US technology giants, the S&P 500 was the strongest major developed market in local currency terms over the past three months.
M&G: Chaos reigns: Trade Tech and Treasuries
The number of intra-day S&P price swings in Q1 was the highest since 2016. What is going on?
Aviva Investors: The dangerous science of buckets
In his book, Behave, author Robert Sapolsky urges his readers to rid themselves of categorical thinking. He uses the visual spectrum to make his point. The distinction between colours is arbitrarily drawn, and each language slices and dices the boundaries differently when they assign words to colours.
BlackRocks Insight Series: Equity Income what happens next?
Join BlackRocks Global, European and UK Equity teams as they discuss their markets and outline the risks and opportunities as they see them. The live streamed only event will be held on Thursday 12 April at 10am (GMT).