Japanese equities had the largest positive shift in net sentiment across pan-European fund selectors during the last quarter, according to Expert Investor research. Click through the slides below to find out more about the views of the industry toward Japanese equities.
European active equity funds saw a turnaround in net flows during 2017, enjoying a rise of €135.8bn in net new money to €62.7bn, after suffering an outflow of €73.1bn in 2016, according to Morningstar data.
ETF Securities, , a London-based exchange traded funds provider, has launched three new ETFs that look for potential growth opportunities in emerging technology industries within the healthcare, energy storage, and commerce sectors.
The top European US equity funds returned between 15.14% to 25.63% over the sector average since US president Donald Trump took office in 2017, according to FE Analytics. But negative sentiment is leading many fund selectors to pull out the asset class.
John Maynard Keynes was a fan, Warren Buffett famously still is, but do investors get real benefits from the concentrated equity portfolios that have grown in popularity in recent years?
US equity exchanged traded funds (ETFs) were the preferred product for European investors looking at the ETF market in 2017, accounting for 15% of the market’s assets under management (AUM), according to Thompson Reuters Lipper research.
Plans to scrap a class of anonymous shares in Switzerland could deal another blow to the country’s traditionally secret banking practices.
Frontier market funds are leading Europe’s emerging market fund pack with Charlemagne’s frontier market offering at the top, according to FE Analytics.
European asset managers’ appetite for equities is at its highest since March 2015 with the majority of fund managers responding to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s latest fund manager survey reporting an overweight allocation despite seeing the asset class as expensive.
The active versus passive debate could be history by 2025, according to Blackrock’s Joe Parkin.
Commodity-related investments delivered mixed results in 2017, failing to match the gains achieved in 2016. Morningstar analyst Fatima Khizou looks at which funds stand out in a sector that has some very experienced managers.
Flows into European equity exchange traded products (ETP) rebounded in 2017, after an annus horribilis in 2016, and the trend is set to continue thanks to MiFID II’s transparency requirements in 2018, according to reports.
