Investment
Emerging Markets | 16 Aug 15
Report: Emerging markets elevated to high risk
Growing concerns in China and other emerging markets could lead to “a prolonged deceleration” and have a “severe knock-on effect across the EU and the US”, according to the most recent report on risk by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Fixed Income | 16 Aug 15
Inflation-linked bond flows: up and down with the oil price
As the eurozone has been flirting with deflation this year, appetite for inflation-linked bonds has been understandably lacklustre. However, as the oil price started a surprise ascent in April, interest in the asset class rose accordingly. With the oil price now below $50 again, investors are once again abandoning the asset class.
Fixed Income | 14 Aug 15
The nature of bond markets has changed – Woolnough
In the latest Brewin Dolphin podcast, head of fund research, Ben Gutteridge talks to M&G’s Richard Woolnough about, among other things, the changing nature of bond market liquidity and the pros and cons of scale.
SFO seeks more evidence for final stages of Harlequin probe
Investors into troubled overseas property company Harlequin have been asked to come forward and give evidence to assist the Serious Fraud Office in the final stages of its criminal investigation.
ANALYSIS: Nothing conventional about Chinese currency slump
There has been a lot of conventional wisdom bandied about over the past few days in relation to China’s loosening of the renminbi peg.