Asset Allocation

Emerging Markets | 24 Aug 16

Emerging market bonds have undergone a remarkably quick transformation from one of the least loved asset classes to perhaps the most popular. This has been driven by the relative attractiveness of emerging market debt compared to developed market fixed income, but to what extent have the fundamentals of the asset class actually improved?

Emerging Markets | 23 Aug 16

US fund management giant BlackRock has joined the ongoing shift into emerging markets by upgrading the asset class to overweight in its asset allocation outlook.

Emerging Markets | 15 Aug 16

In August 2015, emerging market equities were in the midst of the most serious market correction since 2008. A year on, investors are more bullish than ever about the asset class. Is this radical change of mood justified?

Best Practice | 27 Jun 16

Rattled by a growing list of worries that could threaten the fragile global economy, including the UK’s shock Brexit vote, investors around the world are amassing cash, favouring bonds over equities and increasing their holdings of gold.

Europe | 20 Jun 16

Eaton Vance Management (International), a subsidiary of US-based Eaton Vance Corp, has launched a multi-asset credit fund which is available to investors in the UK and Ireland with further jurisdictions planned.