Across Europe absolute return strategies are the asset class most fund selectors wanted to buy even before the recent rise in volatility in bond and equity markets, although the Dutch are not particularly keen on the strategy.
Advisers were on red alert last week after market volatility once again reared its ugly head, but what should they be telling clients?
Fidelity has hired Amundi Asset Management’s head of equities Romain Boscher to be its new global chief investment officer, equities.
With the global selloff shaking markets over the past week, Expert Investor data suggests that it was the Spanish and the Italians that might be the least prepared for a potential market correction, and the Danish could be the most ready.
February 16 marks the Chinese New Year, with 2018 welcoming the Year of the Dog. However, while the dog is associated with honesty, faithfulness, and a strong sense of responsibility in the Chinese zodiac, investors will be hoping for a repeat of 2017 – the Year of the Rooster – which saw the MSCI China…
Goldman Sachs Fund Solutions (GSFS), a fund investments platform, has partnered with Europe’s largest asset manager Amundi to manage its Luxembourg-domiciled funds.
Invesco has expanded its Luxembourg-domiciled Ucits range with the launch of the Sustainable Allocation and Global High Yield Short Term Bond funds.
European equities already recorded the largest negative shift in sentiment, along with commodities, by pan-European fund selectors even before the sharp selloff experienced in the markets this week, according to Expert Investor research.
Last week’s highly anticipated release of the FAANG quarterly updates (minus the N) surprisingly ended up being somewhat of a mixed bag, but what can we read from the setbacks and successes of some of the world’s biggest tech giants?
Mirabaud Asset Management has launched a fixed income Ucits that focuses on providing a diversified portfolio of global credit opportunities.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has begun to unwind quantitative easing, reducing its bond purchases to €30bn a month from €60bn last year. The situation will be reviewed again at the end of September, with some predicting it will swiftly move to zero.
While Danish fund selectors are renowned for being some of the most optimistic in Europe in responding to Expert Investor’s research, their latest sentiment on equities are systematically less positive compared with the European average.
