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Companies | features 22 Aug 16
Parallel distribution – the model for a post-Brexit world
Legg Mason’s head of product strategy, Jaspal Sagger, and Justin Eede, the company’s head of insitutional sales, are confident their ‘parallel’ distribution and product strategies will help them navigate any hazards these uncertain times may bring post-Brexit.
Best Practice | features 18 Aug 16
Challenges mount for multi-asset managers
The BNP Paribas multi-asset team tactic, in the current febrile environment, is to tread carefully in its search for alpha and let the fallout from Brexit, modest global growth and doubts over monetary policy play out.
Emerging Markets | features 15 Aug 16
Emerging market equities: as compelling as they seem?
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?
Europe | features 10 Aug 16
Solvency II ‘life support’ is a step in the wrong direction
Solvency II is a step in the wrong direction that will keep some companies alive that would be better giving themselves a decent burial and consolidating themselves out of the market now, according to industry consultant Ned Cazalet.
Equities | features 8 Aug 16
Post-Brexit, sustained value seen in Europe stocks
Despite fears triggered by Brexit, Neil Brown, manager of the Alliance Trust Sustainable Future Pan-European Equity Fund, is convinced the next five years in Europe will be better than the past five.