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Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Buybacks: time to celebrate or sell?

It’s not just the oil majors delivering chunky share buyback programmes, but is it good for long-term investors?

Adviser-Hub 11th May 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: US bond yields hit 3%: a new investment landscape?

The dramatic moves in government bond markets since the start of the year are changing the landscape for wider financial markets.

Adviser-Hub 4th May 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Time to AIM higher

AIM stocks have hit hardest by weakening investor sentiment: the gap between their operational performance, relative and share price performance now looks hard to ignore.

Adviser-Hub 28th Apr 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Technology: they think it’s all over?

The technology sector has had a dismal start to the year, but it remains embedded in major structural trends. Is this a good time to take another look?

Adviser-Hub 21st Apr 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Fixed income holdings drop to 14-year lows

Investors are abandoning fixed income, as rising inflation and interest rates take hold, but could they be leaving themselves vulnerable?

Adviser-Hub 13th Apr 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Government spending soars to $65 trillion

Global government spending has increased by a quarter over the pandemic. It’s a tough time to be in charge of the government’s purse strings.

Adviser-Hub 6th Apr 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Gold: from damp squib to safe haven

Gold has protected investors during the crisis, but may struggle to make further progress from here.

Adviser-Hub 30th Mar 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Latin America: the world’s investing hotspot

Latin American funds have been top performers since the start of the year, buoyed by rising commodity prices and currency strength. But will difficult politics disrupt the region’s strength?

Adviser-Hub 24th Mar 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Might the war in Ukraine change the direction of interest rates?

Interest rates are slated to rise several times in 2022. Does the Ukrainian crisis shift the thinking from central bankers?

Adviser-Hub 16th Mar 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Soaring oil price: is a recession inevitable?

The oil price hit new highs this week, as countries took steps to cut Russian oil out of their energy supply chain.

Adviser-Hub 9th Mar 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Ukraine and the impact on markets

The impact of geopolitical events on markets is often short-lived – will it be different for the Ukrainian crisis?

Adviser-Hub 3rd Mar 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Emerging markets: all doom and gloom?

Emerging markets have been a tough place to invest for over a decade, particularly outside China. Today, there seem to be even more reasons to worry.

Adviser-Hub 23rd Feb 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: It’s a value rally, but not as we know it

This year’s value rally looks a little different to last year’s. There are reasons to believe it may have more longevity as a result.

Adviser-Hub 17th Feb 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Does the conflict in Ukraine pose a risk to markets?

As the crisis escalates, what is the fallout for financial markets from tension on the Ukrainian border?

Adviser-Hub 10th Feb 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Risk managers deliver a gloomy prognosis

The 2022 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report suggests a difficult few years ahead. Investors will need to lean in to these risks.

Adviser-Hub 3rd Feb 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Jump in profit warnings suggests a tougher 2022

Omicron was barely getting started, but profit warnings had already started to rise in the final quarter of 2021. Supply chain problems were starting to bite.

Adviser-Hub 26th Jan 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: China: does its recent weakness bring opportunities?

It’s been a horrible year for investors in China – and the most recent growth statistics brought little cheer. But might this bring opportunities?

Adviser-Hub 19th Jan 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Terry Smith takes aim at Unilever

Unilever has come under fire from one of its biggest shareholders, Terry Smith, for its grandstanding on social issues. Is the criticism fair?

Adviser-Hub 13th Jan 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: An optimistic start to 2022

Markets have opened with a flourish – dismissing the new variant and inflationary pressures: should investors follow this new-found optimism?

Adviser-Hub 6th Jan 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Inflation: not so transitory after all

Inflationary pressures are real and are looking increasingly persistent rather than transitory. Investors need to be wary of the assumption that all equities can weather an inflation storm.

Adviser-Hub 16th Dec 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: 2021: a great year for active managers?

Passive dominated once again in 2020, but will that change in 2021? A lot depends on the technology sector.

Adviser-Hub 8th Dec 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: High yield bonds: another fixed income trouble spot?

It’s been a tough month for junk bonds - does this close off another avenue for fixed income investors?

Adviser-Hub 1st Dec 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: The bear market in the lockdown winners

Lockdown winners have become recovery losers. Is value emerging?

Adviser-Hub 24th Nov 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Targeting Pricing Power

As UK inflation ticks higher, will the traditional strategies adopted by fund managers to deal with rising prices prove effective?

Adviser-Hub 18th Nov 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: A year on from vaccine liberation

The announcement of a successful vaccine in November 2020 prompted a significant rally in markets, but navigating markets in 2021 has been far more complex than just buying the recovery.

Adviser-Hub 11th Nov 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: COP26 delivers, but why is the UK lagging?

COP26 clearly showed the direction of travel for the funds industry. UK regulators may be behind the curve.

Adviser-Hub 4th Nov 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is this really a ‘new age of optimism’?

The Chancellor delivered a boosterish budget, hailing a ‘new age of optimism’. Has the normally-measured Rishi Sunak been drinking some of the Prime Minister’s Kool-Aid? Could the UK economy be over t...

Adviser-Hub 28th Oct 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Can COP26 succeed?

Multi-national agreement is often hard won, but implementation can be even harder. Can COP 26 produce tangible long-term progress on climate change?

Adviser-Hub 20th Oct 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Did you miss the UK’s bounce-back?

More lacklustre data from the UK emerged this week. Is the weakness temporary? Or have we seen the best of the UK’s revival?

Adviser-Hub 13th Oct 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Who wins and who loses from higher wages?

The UK is moving to a high wage economy, according to the government, but will corporates have to foot the bill?

Adviser-Hub 7th Oct 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: UK consumer: struggling or saviour?

The UK consumer was due to drive the economic recovery, but it hasn’t worked out that way.

Adviser-Hub 30th Sep 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Evergrande: China’s Lehman moment?

Is the imminent default of Chinese property developer Evergrande about to destabilise the wider economy? Or has the risk been overblown?

Adviser-Hub 22nd Sep 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is the commodities super-cycle over already?

Commodities prices have been rolling over, particularly in the metals complex. Is the much-heralded commodities super-cycle a damp squib?

Adviser-Hub 15th Sep 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Europe’s going green

There has been a flurry of green bond issuance in Europe, does it solve the ESG problem for fixed income investors?

Adviser-Hub 8th Sep 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Will tapering bring the stock market party to an end?

Markets continue to ride a wave of easy money: could the Federal Reserve bring that to an abrupt halt?

Adviser-Hub 2nd Sep 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: What does a normalising recovery mean for investors?

As economic recovery starts to slow into a more normal pattern, is it bad news for over-inflated markets?

Adviser-Hub 26th Aug 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Inflation falling? No-one is fooled

Inflation may have dropped, but few believe inflationary pressures have gone away.

Adviser-Hub 18th Aug 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Outsourcing

Large institutional investors are being driven to outsource investment management, but is this a welcome trend?

Adviser-Hub 11th Aug 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Will fund managers continue to Zoom?

Fund managers have had to conduct company management meetings remotely over the past year. To what extent will they revert to old practices as normal life re-emerges?

Adviser-Hub 4th Aug 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Time to revisit the UK Equity income sector?

It has been a better period for the UK equity income sector. It has benefited from UK economic recovery and a bounce-back in payouts. But can its strength endure?

Adviser-Hub 28th Jul 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Olympic glory for Japanese equities?

As the Olympic games get underway in Japan, the country’s equity markets have been little more than an also-ran. Can they catch up?

Adviser-Hub 21st Jul 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is the UK economy in trouble?

While UK fund managers suggest buoyant growth for the UK economy, recovery is not yet assured as recent GDP and inflation figures demonstrate.

Adviser-Hub 14th Jul 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is the UK index fit for purpose?

The UK market is facing an assault from private equity, which is picking off the best companies at the bottom and top of the market. How can it improve?

Adviser-Hub 7th Jul 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Will the second half of 2021 be as strong as the first?

It has been a cracking start to 2021 for investors, but eeking out gains in the second half of the year may be tougher.

Adviser-Hub 1st Jul 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Time to call time on open-ended property funds?

As Aegon closes its Property Income fund and feeder funds, are we ignoring the elephant in the room on property funds?

Adviser-Hub 23rd Jun 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is the recovery running out of steam?

Until the last few weeks, the global recovery had surprised with its strength. However, recently the signals – on jobs, on retail sales, on inflation – have been more mixed.

Adviser-Hub 17th Jun 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Why is the gold price rising?

Inflation? Cryptos? Interest rates? What explains the recent strength of gold?

Adviser-Hub 9th Jun 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Boom times for the global economy

The global economy is flying, but with structural imbalances building, will its strength be reflected in markets?

Adviser-Hub 3rd Jun 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Dividends are back! Will investors follow?

The latest Janus Henderson Global Dividend index should make encouraging reading for beleaguered income seekers.

Adviser-Hub 26th May 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is the US heading for disaster?

For US treasury secretary Larry Summers believes that the Fed is ignoring the risks of inflation and could be sowing the seeds of financial instability.

Adviser-Hub 19th May 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Europe: the advantage of low expectations

Europe’s economic data may be weak, but its corporate sector is showing a buoyant recovery – and expectations are far lower than for the buoyant US.

Adviser-Hub 12th May 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Biden tops the charts for stock market performance

Unlike his predecessor, President Biden has been quiet on stock market performance in his first 100 days. While it may be tempting to boast, he is right to be cautious.

Adviser-Hub 5th May 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Why have US earnings failed to impress?

US earnings season has been a blast. Companies have been smashing it out of the park on profitability and growth as they put the pandemic behind them.

Adviser-Hub 29th Apr 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Diminishing rewards for taking risk

The potential rewards for taking investment risk are falling: should investors be concerned about rising asset prices?

Adviser-Hub 22nd Apr 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Barnett is back: can he deliver?

Mark Barnett is back with a new role alongside Paul Marriage at Tellworth. Could greater freedom and flexibility see a brighter future for the fallen star?

Adviser-Hub 14th Apr 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Is the reflation trade at risk?

The reflation trade continues in earnest, with cyclical sectors leading markets in recent weeks. However, could problems in the vaccine rollout disrupt markets’ assumptions?

Adviser-Hub 7th Apr 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Why didn’t Deliveroo deliver?

Deliveroo’s IPO fell flat in early trading: it may be a temporary blip.

Adviser-Hub 31st Mar 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Lessons from a veteran investor

James Anderson’s may be leaving Baillie Gifford in April next year, but the investment philosophy he has put in place looks set to thrive long after his departure.

Adviser-Hub 25th Mar 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Are there any silver linings for commercial property?

From Brexit to Covid to ecommerce and agile working, there have been a litany of problems for the commercial property sector. Could there be better times ahead?

Adviser-Hub 18th Mar 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: The fixed income reckoning

The year has started badly for fixed income, but ultimately, it may bring greater opportunity as yields rise.

Adviser-Hub 10th Mar 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Will listings shake-up draw businesses to the UK?

The Hill Review recommends changes to the UK listing rules. It may help shake off the fuddy-duddy reputation of UK markets.

Adviser-Hub 3rd Mar 2021

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: All change for fixed income

It’s starting to get nasty in fixed income markets, with yield rising and prices tumbling. Is this the moment the ‘lower for longer’ trade finally comes to an end?

Adviser-Hub 24th Feb 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Woodford’s back…and he’s right about one thing

It’s safe to say Neil Woodford’s comeback hasn’t been universally welcomed.

Adviser-Hub 17th Feb 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Stock markets: a year since the crash

Even though markets have recovered since the crash in February 2020, they have held plenty of surprises for investors.

Adviser-Hub 10th Feb 2021

Market Updates

The Week: The new-found enthusiasm for emerging markets

Investors have been showing renewed interest in emerging markets. Is this the right way to play the reflation trade?

Adviser-Hub 4th Feb 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Vaccine worries and the stock market bubble

2021 is not panning out as we planned. It’s delivered more lockdowns, new Covid-19 strains and a fresh assault on the global economy. Should stock market bubble be added to the list of concerns?

Adviser-Hub 27th Jan 2021

Market Updates

The Week: A new broom at the White House

Joe Biden takes on a raft of seemingly intractable problems when he takes office this week, but the buoyant US stock market hasn’t been one of them.

Adviser-Hub 20th Jan 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Will the SFDR change the world?

A new raft of EU disclosure requirements on sustainability are in the offing. What are the implications for investors?

Adviser-Hub 13th Jan 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Muted reaction to eleventh-hour Brexit deal

After considerable wrangling, the UK and EU have finally agreed a deal. Why aren’t financial markets more excited?

Adviser-Hub 6th Jan 2021

Market Updates

The Week: The investment lessons we learned in 2020

2020 was a difficult year, but investors shouldn’t waste the opportunity to learn from it. A crisis may be painful, but it can help create better investors.

Adviser-Hub 16th Dec 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Deal or no deal, the UK’s unpopularity could continue

The UK market is hugely out of favour, but some resolution to the Brexit situation – be that deal or no deal – see UK assets find favour once again?

Adviser-Hub 10th Dec 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Could 2021 be a better year for equity income?

After a horrible year, can investors be more optimistic about the prospects for equity income next year? It depends.

Adviser-Hub 3rd Dec 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Can Britain bounce back?

As Chancellor Sunak gives a depressing view of the UK economy in his Spending Review, tax rises appear inevitable.

Adviser-Hub 26th Nov 2020

Market Updates

The Week: China’s century

Between the Covid-19 outbreak and the trade war, it looked like tough times ahead for China. The reality has been very different.

Adviser-Hub 18th Nov 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Vaccine fever

The prospect of a vaccine has ignited stock markets, but will it really be the panacea that investors expect?

Adviser-Hub 12th Nov 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Not red to blue, but West to East

The US election could go either way, but neither candidate looks set to check the growing power of Asia.

Adviser-Hub 4th Nov 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Is fund management failing on diversity?

Two surveys have shown that fund managers may only be talking the talk on diversity, but as fund selectors get serious on the issue, they may have to act fast.

Adviser-Hub 28th Oct 2020

Market Updates

The Week: How should investors play the recovery?

With cases rising, economic recovery looks some way off, but investors should prepare for a best-case scenario as well as a worst-case scenario.

Adviser-Hub 21st Oct 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Living with uncertainty

Uncertainty has become a fact of life in recent years. The IMF’s recent assessment of the state of the global economy makes things little clearer.

Adviser-Hub 14th Oct 2020

Market Updates

The Week: UK equity income: is there any hope?

The UK Equity income sector has been a tough place over the last five years. Is there any hope ahead for beleaguered investors?

Adviser-Hub 7th Oct 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Tough times for Uncle Sam

The upcoming election has showed US democracy in an unflattering light: there are tough times ahead for the land of stars and stripes.

Adviser-Hub 1st Oct 2020

Market Updates

The Week: How is China faring in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak?

Predictions for the demise of China may have been exaggerated. There are signs it is recovering fast.

Adviser-Hub 23rd Sep 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Will a vaccine change the game?

Stock markets appear to be defying gravity. They have continued to rise in the face of some grim economic news. This begs the question of what they would do in the face of really good news: a vaccine,...

Adviser-Hub 17th Sep 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Is there hope for friendless emerging markets?

With a low Dollar, low valuations and recovering economies, these should be buoyant times for emerging markets, but buyers are thin on the ground.

Adviser-Hub 10th Sep 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Is commercial property the elephant in you

Fund managers are seldom the first to predict the long-term decline of their asset class, but surely commercial property managers are looking to the future with some trepidation?

Adviser-Hub 2nd Sep 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Global dividends: a port in a storm?

Have global dividends been hit as hard as UK dividends? The Janus Henderson Global Dividend index shows some markets are yet to see an impact.

Adviser-Hub 26th Aug 2020

Market Updates

The Week: A last hurrah for growth stocks

The value of Apple hit $2trillion this week after a significant rise in its share price over the last three months.

Adviser-Hub 20th Aug 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Grim reading on UK data

The UK’s economic output slumped in the second quarter – and the future’s not looking too bright either.

Adviser-Hub 12th Aug 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Will Covid-19 end US market dominance?

US markets have outperformed for a decade, but can this continue in the face of a woeful Covid-19 response and political uncertainty?

Adviser-Hub 5th Aug 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Are investors too late on gold?

Gold may be an imperfect hedge for volatile markets, but when it works, it really works. The problem is that when interest in gold spikes, it tends to mark the end of its bull run – are investors too...

Adviser-Hub 29th Jul 2020

Market Updates

The Week: UK dividends – reasons to be cheerful?

It’s been a torrid time for UK income investors, but there may be reasons for cheer amid the gloom.

Adviser-Hub 23rd Jul 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Have active managers shown their worth?

Active managers should thrive in a crisis. While passive managers can only watch, active managers can get busy. But have they delivered?

Adviser-Hub 16th Jul 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The Summer Statement: will it work?

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has encouraged a summer of spending to revive the UK’s flagging economy, but can it be saved?

Adviser-Hub 8th Jul 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The potential problems of the ‘lone wolf’ asset manager

Even the best fund manager needs checks and balances to prevent serious mistakes.

Adviser-Hub 2nd Jul 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Has the UK stock market gone low enough?

The UK is still an important weighting in many investor portfolios, but it’s been a dismal performer. Is that about to change?

Adviser-Hub 25th Jun 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The resilience of Asian dividends

With UK dividends under considerable pressure, have Asian companies continued to deliver payouts to shareholders?

Adviser-Hub 17th Jun 2020

Market Updates

The Week: A ‘dash for trash’ or a value rally?

It’s been a better time for value stocks, but markets have been here before. Can their recent strength endure?

Adviser-Hub 10th Jun 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Have markets moved too far, too fast?

Markets have seen one of the quickest rebounds in history, to the extent that investors are starting to wonder whether they might have gone too far.

Adviser-Hub 3rd Jun 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Does size really matter?

Size has provided little protection in the recent market rout. The appeal of large caps has historically been their defensiveness and their dividend payments, but does this still stand?

Adviser-Hub 28th May 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Does value investing still have a place in your portfolio?

It’s been a rough time for value managers. Has quantitative easing killed off value as a strategy? Or can it stage a comeback?

Adviser-Hub 21st May 2020

Market Updates

The Week: China: the longer-term consequences of Covid-19

China may be seeing an economic bounce-back, but there may yet be economic consequences from the Covid-19 pandemic as the US sharpens its claws.

Adviser-Hub 14th May 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Dividend cuts become the norm

Shell became the latest company to cut its dividend last week. Can investors rely on dividends returning?

Adviser-Hub 6th May 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Will the low oil price dent the prospects for renewables?

The oil price has slumped. This brings problems for oil majors, the shale industry and various others, but could it also create difficulties for the renewables sector?

Adviser-Hub 29th Apr 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Oil price shock: the implications

The pandemic has already disrupted equity and bond markets, but now its influence is spreading to commodities markets and notably to the price of oil. What are the implications of rock bottom oil pric...

Adviser-Hub 23rd Apr 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Corporate bond bargains?

“The best value investment grade market I have seen” - corporate bond managers say they are finding bargains. Should advisers be taking note?

Adviser-Hub 16th Apr 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Is this a dead cat bounce?

The recent performance from stock markets has given investors some cause for cheer amid the general gloom. However, could this be a dead cat bounce rather than a genuine cause for optimism?

Adviser-Hub 8th Apr 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Are we going bust?

Government bailouts look set to explode already stretched deficits. While necessary in the short-term, what may be the longer-term consequences?

Adviser-Hub 2nd Apr 2020

Market Updates

The Week: What does it cost to support markets? $2 trillion

The US emergency fiscal stimulus package has finally passed and markets are grateful, but could it create long-term problems?

Adviser-Hub 26th Mar 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Bye-bye the ‘V’ shaped recovery; hello the ‘L’ shape

A V-shaped recovery now looks vanishingly unlikely, but could any good come of the financial market meltdown?

Adviser-Hub 19th Mar 2020

Market Updates

The Week: What markets really, really want...

Markets have their fiscal and monetary stimulus, but still they’re not happy. What would it take to improve market sentiment?

Adviser-Hub 12th Mar 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Federal Reserve: not enough or too much?

The Federal Reserve surprised markets by announcing a 50bps interest rate cut in an attempt to calm market nerves. The move hit a bum note, prompting a further sell-off in the equity market.

Adviser-Hub 5th Mar 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Only flu? Assessing the impact of the Corona virus

It’s been a torrid week for the financial markets, as investors assess the potential impact of the Coronavirus.

Adviser-Hub 26th Feb 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Merger mania?

Consolidation has been considered a solution to the pressures on the active management industry, but it is not an end in itself.

Adviser-Hub 19th Feb 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The UK continues its unloved status

As Valentine’s Day approaches, the UK still can’t find many suitors. The post-election bounce has ebbed and investors are looking at the Brexit negotiations with trepidation.

Adviser-Hub 12th Feb 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Returns in short supply

It’s been a torrid time for short-sellers of Elon Musk’s Tesla as the company has beaten expectations on profits. Does it challenge the concept of short-selling?

Adviser-Hub 5th Feb 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The FCA’s new value assessments are soon to be released

The FCA’s new value assessments are soon to be released. But will they do any good?

Adviser-Hub 30th Jan 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Is China’s growth assured?

This week saw the widely-awaited trade deal struck between the US and China.

Adviser-Hub 23rd Jan 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Fink’s greener future needs governments to play ball

Larry Fink this week committed BlackRock to a greener future. He should have words with the UK government.

Adviser-Hub 15th Jan 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The rise and rise of indexation

As index funds smash records, their influence on pricing in global stock markets is increasing. Can active managers put up a credible defense?

Adviser-Hub 8th Jan 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Back to the races? The Conservative election victory

Markets celebrated the Conservative victory, but have they been premature?

Adviser-Hub 18th Dec 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Better times for the UK market?

With the election looming, the UK markets appear to be pricing in a Conservative victory and fund managers are increasingly optimistic, but is there enthusiasm misplaced?

Adviser-Hub 11th Dec 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Risk on: 2019 was a bumper year

Against expectations, 2019 has proved a year in which it was tough not to make money. The rising tide of central bank policy floated all boats.

Adviser-Hub 4th Dec 2019

Market Updates

The Week: ESG - a generational change for investment managers

If there has been a defining issue for the fund management industry in 2019, it is ESG.

Adviser-Hub 27th Nov 2019

Market Updates

The Week: What next for equity income?

After recent weak performance, equity income’s position at the heart of a UK portfolio is under threat.

Adviser-Hub 20th Nov 2019

Market Updates

The Week: When is a safe haven not a safe haven?

Is it time to rethink what constitutes a ‘safe haven’ in the current market environment?

Adviser-Hub 13th Nov 2019

Market Updates

The Week: General Election 2019: the unpalatable economic choice ahead

As a General Election looms, voters face an uncomfortable choice.

Adviser-Hub 6th Nov 2019

Market Updates

The Week: The future of fund management

ESG may be the saviour of active management, but it’s place in the retail funds industry is still in flux.

Adviser-Hub 30th Oct 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Brexit deal 2.0: the deal that business needs?

A Brexit deal has passed the House of Commons: does this provide much needed certainty for UK businesses?

Adviser-Hub 23rd Oct 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Woodford’s legacy for active management

The demise of Woodford Investment Management is a blow for the whole active industry.

Adviser-Hub 16th Oct 2019

Market Updates

The Week: As trade talks resume, how optimistic should we be about the prospects for a deal?

As trade talks resume, how optimistic should we be about the prospects for a deal?

Adviser-Hub 9th Oct 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Does manufacturing matter?

As US manufacturing slides, how important is it for global economic growth? And would trade talks resolve the problem?

Adviser-Hub 2nd Oct 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Is stockpicking enough in a populist era?

Fund managers are fond of emphasising that they focus on stockpicking rather than troubling themselves with the broader macroeconomic landscape.

Adviser-Hub 25th Sep 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Why is the Bank of England not easing?

While the ECB and Federal Reserve are loosening monetary policy, the UK is holding out. Why?

Adviser-Hub 18th Sep 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Is the elastic about to snap?

The dominance of large growth stocks over unloved value names has proved the John Maynard Keynes adage that markets can stay irrational longer than investors can stay solvent.

Adviser-Hub 11th Sep 2019

Market Updates

The Week: All eyes on UK Parliament

While other things certainly happened this week - sliding global manufacturing, a crisis in Argentina - all eyes were on the UK parliament. The Chancellor Sajid Javid declared an ‘en...

Adviser-Hub 5th Sep 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Borisnomics: tax cuts and chlorinated chicken

Should we ever have been in any doubt, it is now absolutely clear that Boris Johnson is happy to take the UK out of the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal. If ‘no deal’ is the final option, can...

Adviser-Hub 29th Aug 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Global dividend growth slips as corporate profits dip

The deceleration in the global economy is making an impact on global dividends, finds the latest Henderson Global Dividend Index.

Adviser-Hub 22nd Aug 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Yield Curve

The US yield curve has finally inverted. It’s spooked equity markets, but does it necessarily mean recession is imminent?

Adviser-Hub 15th Aug 2019

Market Updates

The Week: A new world order threatens capitalism

After significant falls this week, have markets recognised that China/US trade wars are part of a deeper problem?

Adviser-Hub 8th Aug 2019

Market Updates

The Week: The Fed has bitten the bullet on interest rates

The Federal Reserve has bitten the bullet on interest rates, but will the 25bps rise make any difference to the global economy?

Adviser-Hub 1st Aug 2019

Market Updates

The Week: The new PM and UK assets

This week saw Boris Johnson anointed as UK Prime Minister.

Adviser-Hub 25th Jul 2019

Market Updates

The Week: China GDP: time to panic?

There was much hand-wringing this week as China announced the slowest growth in almost 30 years. Should investors be worried?

Adviser-Hub 18th Jul 2019

Market Updates

The Week: All change at the head of Europe’s institutions

The UK is not the only place undergoing a change of leadership. Europe is in the process of appointing new heads for the European Commission and European Central Bank.

Adviser-Hub 11th Jul 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Inflated expectations

Investor expectations have been dialled up by market returns in recent years. Advisers will need to talk them down.

Adviser-Hub 4th Jul 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Monetary easing resumes: will markets be impressed?

It is deja vu all over again. This week, central banks have hinted at further rate cuts, but is monetary easing losing its potency?

Adviser-Hub 27th Jun 2019

Market Updates

The Week: The platform duty of care

The Woodford problems have raised a number of problems, not least the relationship between platforms and their execution-only clients.

Adviser-Hub 20th Jun 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Is Woodford a victim?

Amid the clamour, there are a number of quieter voices suggesting that Neil Woodford has been poorly treated. If investors had only been willing to be more patient, they argue, it would have come righ...

Adviser-Hub 13th Jun 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Woodford: bad for him, bad for the industry

Many column inches have already been devoted to the Neil Woodford saga, but make no mistake, it is vitally important for investors to take some lessons from the downfall of ‘the greatest investor of h...

Adviser-Hub 6th Jun 2019

Market Updates

The Week: A revival in Japan?

Against all expectations, the Japanese economy grew at robust pace of 2.1% in the first quarter of 2019.

Adviser-Hub 30th May 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Can the US retain its innovation crown?

The long-term outperformance of the US stock market has many possible explanations.

Adviser-Hub 16th May 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Wobbly markets

Markets have been wobbly this week as the China/US truce appeared to be in jeopardy.

Adviser-Hub 9th May 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Addressing intergenerational unfairness

The House of Lords and FCA are both looking at ways to address financial disparity between generations. Financial advisers may need to take note.

Adviser-Hub 2nd May 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Is the hedge fund dead?

A few years ago, investors were happy to pay 2% a year, plus a 20% performance fee for access to the top talent in the hedge fund industry.

Adviser-Hub 25th Apr 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Lessons from the Neil Woodford experience

Do Neil Woodford's troubles at Woodford Investment Management hold any lessons for investors?

Adviser-Hub 18th Apr 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Why do we still group funds by geography?

In a globalised age, why do we persist in grouping funds by geography?

Adviser-Hub 11th Apr 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Better times ahead for UK mid-caps

Yesterday’s vote in Parliament came as close as reasonably possible to preventing a ‘no deal’ Brexit scenario. Of course, in the absence of other options, there may still be an accidental ‘no deal’, b...

Adviser-Hub 4th Apr 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Active vs Passive

A new report from BMO Global Asset Management has issued a major challenge to the assumption that passive funds always outperform the average active manager.

Adviser-Hub 28th Mar 2019

Market Updates

The Week: ‘Feemageddon’ warning for asset managers

Today’s headlines warned of a ‘feemageddon’ for asset managers, as a new report showed fees on US equity funds fell to a new record low last year.

Adviser-Hub 21st Mar 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Brexit, no Brexit

Whatever side you’re on, Brexit means higher costs for asset managers, which means more consolidation

Adviser-Hub 14th Mar 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Women and wealth

There is a huge opportunity for fund managers who can shrink the gender gap, with women increasingly controlling household wealth.

Adviser-Hub 7th Mar 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Markets rebound; but why?

Markets re-found their footing this week with European stock markets hitting a three month high.

Adviser-Hub 14th Feb 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Investor nerves over commercial property funds

Commercial property funds have caught the eye of the regulator again, after nervous investors withdrew £315m from the sector in December. The FCA has asked for daily updates from the funds over fears...

Adviser-Hub 7th Feb 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Does the future belong to India rather than China?

Martin Wolf wrote in this week’s Financial Times that ‘the future might not belong to China’. Is he right?

Adviser-Hub 31st Jan 2019

Market Updates

The Week: UK dividends hit new highs

With the yield on UK shares at a level not seen since the depths of the financial crisis, are investors missing a barg

Adviser-Hub 24th Jan 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Is Brexit in the price?

Markets were stable in the face of political turmoil in the UK this week. Does this suggest that Brexit - in all its forms - is in the price?

Adviser-Hub 17th Jan 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Big trouble in little China

Things are looking increasingly gloomy in China. Should investors be worried about the year ahead?

Adviser-Hub 3rd Jan 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Reasons to be cheerful 2019

2018 hasn’t been a classic year in markets, here are a number of reasons why investors can look forward to 2019 with more enthusiasm.

Adviser-Hub 20th Dec 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is value back for good?

It is almost a decade since value investing was in the ascendancy, yet the past couple of months have seen a snap-back for the strategy. Can it last?

Adviser-Hub 6th Dec 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Santa rally ahead?

November 2018 It’s a festive tradition to discuss the prospects for a ‘Santa rally’ – will markets deliver this year? A Santa rally has happened 84% of the time...

Adviser-Hub 29th Nov 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The value of dividends in a difficult climate

Stock markets may be bouncing around, but it looks like a good year ahead for income seekers as Janus Henderson forecasts record dividends in 2019.

Adviser-Hub 22nd Nov 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Deal, but no cigar

We have a deal on Brexit, but it appears to have resolved little about the future EU/UK relationship. It’s likely to be business as usual for UK assets

Adviser-Hub 15th Nov 2018

Market Updates

The Week: US Midterms - a check on Trump's power

November 2018 Trump’s unique brand of rhetoric failed to chime with voters in the mid-terms – what does it mean for investors? Markets have rallied since the mid-term elections...

Adviser-Hub 8th Nov 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Why was the budget so boring?

The 2018 Budget was boring, even by the standard of recent budgets, but the constraints of Brexit make it difficult to implement any radical ideas

Adviser-Hub 1st Nov 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Has the US economic miracle come to an end?

The volatility in markets this week appears to have been caused by a belief that the US economic miracle is about to come to an end. Trump only has himself to blame

Adviser-Hub 25th Oct 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Tough times for UK equities

After a difficult run for UK equities, investors need to believe that neither a Labour Government nor a no deal Brexit is a possibility. A combination of a no-deal Brexit and a Labour government...

Adviser-Hub 18th Oct 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Wobbly times

October 2018 Stock markets have started to wobble. A sell-off in Asia has spread across the globe. Having been talked about for months, is the sell-off finally here? The catalysts for the sel...

Adviser-Hub 11th Oct 2018

Market Updates

The Week: A decade on from the financial crisis, how do the banks look today?

On a total return basis, the FTSE All Share is up 139% over the last decade to end September. In contrast, the FTSE All Share Banks Index is down -6% Banks account for 11.9% of the FTSE 100, 12.2...

Adviser-Hub 4th Oct 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The Fed tightens rates, but do money markets share its optimism?

As the Fed hikes rates once again, and predicts more rises this year and next, the yield curve continues to flatten.

Adviser-Hub 27th Sep 2018

Market Updates

The Week: As the China/US trade war escalates, what will bring it to an end?

The US/China trade war accelerated again this week.

Adviser-Hub 20th Sep 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The pace of change

A messy week in the retail sector should remind investors that structural change is a prolonged and difficult process.

Adviser-Hub 13th Sep 2018

Market Updates

The Week: What does good diversification look like?

Diversification used to be easy. Investors just had to mix equities and bonds. Not so today, as the influence of passive funds and monetary policy weighs on markets.

Adviser-Hub 6th Sep 2018

Market Updates

The Week: A bumper year for global dividends, but what about the UK?

The latest statistics from the Janus Henderson Global Dividend index show payouts improving across the globe, but the UK appears a notable laggard.

Adviser-Hub 23rd Aug 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Turkey: an idiosyncratic problem or a threat to wider emerging markets?

Turkey has seen a temporary resolution to its current crisis with the injection of $15bn of Qatari cash, but it is still in crisis

Adviser-Hub 16th Aug 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is Musk going private? The implications for public markets

Elon Musk has said he is considering taking Tesla private. Does this say something about the constraints investors are placing on company management?

Adviser-Hub 9th Aug 2018

Market Updates

The Week: False hope on UK assets

While international fund managers seemed to give the UK market a tentative thumbs up, it is not a ringing endorsement.

Adviser-Hub 25th Jul 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Inflation statistics: another gloomy sign?

This month’s inflation data undershot. Another reason to be gloomy about the UK’s prospects?

Adviser-Hub 19th Jul 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The US: how long can the party last?

The US market has been labelled over-valued, over-concentrated and over-indebted, but still it continues to rise. What might disrupt its trajectory?

Adviser-Hub 12th Jul 2018

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Will the World Cup boost Russian growth?

Does hosting a major sporting event boost economic growth?

Adviser-Hub 4th Jul 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Talking bulls

The US bull market is on course to be the longest in history, but that inevitably means it is closer to the end that the beginning. The US bull market has just 53 days left to beat the longest...

Adviser-Hub 28th Jun 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The £100bn opportunity for asset managers

While fund managers scout around for the next big thing, the real answer to increased flows may be right in front of their noses.

Adviser-Hub 21st Jun 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Why are global investors moving back to the US?

Valuations are expensive, there’s an unpredictable egoist in charge of the economy and stock market growth has been heavily geared to a number of companies whose moral position now looks dangerously i...

Adviser-Hub 14th Jun 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is the recent emerging market decline terminal?

Emerging markets have suffered over the past few months, as the Dollar has strengthened and US bond yields have risen.

Adviser-Hub 7th Jun 2018

Market Updates

The Week: La Dolce Vita?

Markets have been soothed by Italy’s apparently successful bond auction. Are they too quick to revert to business as usual?

Adviser-Hub 31st May 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is there any hope for the High Street?

t was another grim week for the UK high street. M&S looks set to tumble out of the FTSE 100 as it announced falling profits.

Adviser-Hub 24th May 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Curtains for emerging markets?

Emerging markets currencies and government bonds have seen an uncomfortable sell-off in recent weeks. Will it endure?

Adviser-Hub 17th May 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is disappointing Eurozone economic data a one-off?

Slowing growth, weak retail sales, declining industrial production. No, it’s not the UK, but the Eurozone, which, until recently was the darling of the global economy.

Adviser-Hub 10th May 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is the market peak behind us?

At the recent Jupiter annual dinner, two fund managers debated whether the markets peaked on 26 January.

Adviser-Hub 26th Apr 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is there value in UK assets?

Global investors shun the UK, while canny corporate buyers are taking an interest. Who is right?

Adviser-Hub 19th Apr 2018

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Are markets right to be spooked?

As market volatility increases on the back of mounting geopolitical tensions, can this be dismissed as ‘short term noise’ – or is there more at work?

Adviser-Hub 12th Apr 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Is a trade war really ‘easy to win’ for the US?

Who wins in a trade war? Donald Trump believes that trade wars are ‘easy to win’, but what does winning look like?

Adviser-Hub 5th Apr 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The first signs of Spring for the UK economy?

What a difference a week makes. From gloomy, snowy backwater, the UK is suddenly showing the first signs of Spring, with inflation down, a Brexit transition deal sorted and a small recovery in the pou...

Adviser-Hub 22nd Mar 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Time to relax?

Markets appear on a surer footing following the volatility at the start of the year, but can it last?

Adviser-Hub 15th Mar 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Gender diversity – much more carrot than stick

It’s International Women’s Day, which will undoubtedly be accompanied with much hand-wringing about the gender pay gap, poor pension provision for women and the lack of workplace diversity.

Adviser-Hub 8th Mar 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Should investors be worried about an M&A bubble?

US cable operator Comcast has announced a £22.1bn bid for Sky, potentially thwarting a planned takeover by 21st Century Fox. At the same time, Warren Buffett has said cheap debt is fuelling a &l...

Adviser-Hub 27th Feb 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The big data revolution in active management

This week, the Financial Times reported that BlackRock was setting up a new lab in Silicon Valley, specialising in artificial intelligence.

Adviser-Hub 22nd Feb 2018

Market Updates

The Week: An alternative perspective on the bond market?

The economy is rolling and it’s all bad news for the bond markets, right? But is there an alternative view?

Adviser-Hub 13th Feb 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Value stocks tick higher - another dead cat bounce?

These have not been good years to be a value manager.

Adviser-Hub 1st Feb 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Veteran investor Byron Wien gives his 10 ‘surprises’ for the year ahead

Since 1986, veteran analyst Byron Wein, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners of Blackstone, has published his 10 ‘surprises’ for the year ahead.

Adviser-Hub 25th Jan 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Why do US equities keep rising?

It’s tough to find an asset allocator with an overweight position in US assets. Most agree that the stock market is expensive.

Adviser-Hub 18th Jan 2018

Market Updates

The Week: What's the plan in Japan

Japan has been a big hit with investors in 2017, but we’ve been here before.

Adviser-Hub 11th Jan 2018

Market Updates

The Week: The week

Some New Years start with a burst of enthusiasm; a blast out of the blocks, let’s-get-it-on and buy some equities sort of start.

Adviser-Hub 4th Jan 2018

Market Updates

The Week: Farewell to all that

2017 is drawing to a close. Was it a classic for investors?

Adviser-Hub 21st Dec 2017

Market Updates

The Week: Everything is rosy in the economic outlook, so why don’t we feel happier?

In such a good environment, investors are surprisingly gloomy. Is it time for some Christmas jollity?

Adviser-Hub 7th Dec 2017

Market Updates

The Week: Gloom and gloomier

If the Chancellor’s Budget predictions for UK growth were not gloomy enough, the OECD made some even gloomier ones this week.

Adviser-Hub 28th Nov 2017

Market Updates

The Week: North Korea: A macroeconomic event that they actually care about

Finally, markets seem to have found a macroeconomic event that they actually care about.

Adviser-Hub 7th Sep 2017

Market Updates

The Week: How to explain the mismatch between economic growth and labour market statistics?

We currently have a situation where the labour market and GDP growth statistics are telling a different story.

Adviser-Hub 24th Aug 2017

Market Updates

The Week: Valuations - might it be different this time?

Investors have been fretting about valuations for some time, and the recent wobbles in markets seem to endorse the fragility of current equity pricing. Stock markets look increasingly overvalued...

Adviser-Hub 17th Aug 2017

Market Updates

The Week: Uncool Britannia

The UK is in the grip of a crisis with a political vacuum and weakening economic data. But is it really as bad as the headlines suggest? Manufacturing is providing a chink of light Sterling...

Adviser-Hub 10th Aug 2017

Market Updates

The Week: This year’s ‘Spot the Dog’

It’s fair to say that Bestinvest’s ‘Spot the Dog’ list is not popular with fund management groups.

Adviser-Hub 1st Aug 2017

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