According to EIE’s freshest data, emerging market equities are battling for the unpopularity prize. While US equities remain the least popular equities, fewer European investors than ever before are looking to enter Asia.
According to a recent survey held by Schroders, European retail investors expect to achieve a return of 10% in the next 12 months, while half of their portfolio is invested in low-risk assets. In an interview with EIE’s Tjibbe Hoekstra, Erik Arranto of Elite Asset Management in Helsinki reflects on this apparent mismatch between risk…
Exactly half of the thirty-odd fund selectors attending the event said they have a preference for small caps within the emerging markets space. Only in Norway, there are more fans: six in 10 fund selectors there prefer small over large in EM. Over the past year, EM small cap managers have gradually found a more…
Even though they are slightly worried QE will only have a temporary effect, the majority of Finlands fund buyers are poised to take advantage of the European Central Banks monetary stimulus.
Finnish fund selectors have turned from a bunch of sceptics into outright optimists as far as their macroeconomic outlook is concerned. This translates in a preference for risky assets such as European equities and, surprisingly, high yield bonds.
This gallery features a slideshow of photos taken during the Expert Investor Europe Finland event in May 2014.
Finnish fund selectors much prefer value stocks over growth stocks in developed markets.
Finnish fund selectors much prefer value stocks over growth stocks in developed markets.
Tanja Wennonen-Kärnä of Evli Bank in Finland talks to Expert Investor Europe about the art of fund blending.
Expert Investor Finland will be held at Hotel Kämp in Helsinki on 6 March, 2014
Sovereigns are dead, long live sovereigns!
