2017 leaders and laggards
China equity funds lead, while natural resources and hedge funds underperform in our sister website Fund Selector Asia’s year-end ranking of the best and worst performing funds available to Hong Kong and Singapore investors.
IFA ordered to compensate client’s Caribbean investments
An IFA has been ordered to reimburse a client’s losses after she invested her pension into an off-plan Caribbean hotel scheme.
Switch your company DB pension to an insurer urge consultants
Consultants are predicting 2018 will be the best opportunity for companies to transfer defined benefit pension schemes to an insurer since the banking crisis in 2008.
Asia and smaller companies bear fruit in 2017
Funds exposed to Asia and smaller companies produced the best returns for investors in 2017, according to Shore Financial.
Nigel Green’s investor advice for 2018
Inflation rates rising, the Chinese economy slowing and the US pushing back against free trade agreements are all real possibilities investors must “carefully monitor” in 2018, according to deVere Group chief executive Nigel Green.