As Spain is now the fastest-growing eurozone country, with year-on-year GDP growth of 2% in the final quarter of 2014, fund selectors in the capital Madrid are now Europe’s biggest optimists when it comes to the economic prospects. A record 80% of fund selectors have a positive macroeconomic outlook, while bears are nowhere to be seen.…
Financial consultancy Wellershoff & Partners recently analysed the return prospects for equity markets in Asia, Europe and the US, The outcome? Europe will outperform the US by about five times.
For European fund buyers, it’s either European or emerging market equities, never both. Equity market returns only partially explain the phenomenon.
EIE’s latest Pan-European research data reveal that the asset class European fund selectors’ views are most split on is European equities.
Flows into European equity funds are the lowest they have been for almost a year.
