Equities

Equities | 3 Feb 16

Money has flooded into benchmark-tracking exchange traded funds as investors chase low-cost access to major asset markets.

Equities | 3 Feb 16

The bears have gone back into hibernation, and European equities will return in excess of 5% in the remainder of the year. That’s the almost unanimous opinion of international asset managers.

Equities | 2 Feb 16

“Secrets are lies, sharing is caring, privacy is theft,” a chilling extract from Dave Eggers’ ‘The Circle’, a superb dystopian novel on the logical outcome of our addiction to the internet and social media. Alphabet’s crowning as the world’s most valuable company suggests the future is already here.

Asia | 2 Feb 16

UK online investment platform Rplan saw a 280% year-on-year increase in flows into Indian-only funds in 2015, as investors looked to capitalise on the stock market’s strong performance over the past year.

Equities | 28 Jan 16

Anglo American saw its shares rocket 15% on news it has decided to cut around 4000 jobs and increased iron ore production.