Asset Allocation
Emerging Markets | 13 Jun 16
Sovereign wealth funds stay confident as returns slide
Despite the volatility of global financial markets this year and a steady decline in investment returns, confidence among the world’s sovereign wealth funds remains high, a survey by Invesco has found.
Investors in wait-and-see mode as data give few hints
Financial markets have lacked direction in recent months, with the main equity indices all very close to where they were at the start of the year. Macroeconomic data are not strong enough to reinvigorate the bull market, yet not sufficiently weak to stoke fears of recession.
ANALYSIS: Ignore the seven-year itch, stick with the “unfashionable” bulls
Seven years of equity rises, have we really seen any evidence of complacency that ended previous bull markets?
Macro Views | 19 Apr 16
ANALYSIS: Smart investors may be buying rather than selling this summer
As the month of May trundles into view investors will be thinking about the traditional summer-proofing of portfolios, but the shrewdest among them may see more opportunity than danger.
Fixed Income | 4 Mar 16
ANALYSIS: High time for high-yield, the US equity substitute?
Those who believe that ‘risk-on, risk-off’ is consigned to the past look away now, with record inflows into US high-yield indicating that sentiment has shifted once again to the spicier end of the fixed income spectrum.