European equity popularity retreats from high
European equities remain the most popular asset class with European fund selectors, but less people intend to increase their exposure than in the beginning of the year, according to EIE’s freshest data.
European equities remain the most popular asset class with European fund selectors, but less people intend to increase their exposure than in the beginning of the year, according to EIE’s freshest data.
“Events in Greece have tipped the balance,” Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, said on Wednesday as explanation for the Financial Policy Committee’s view that risks to financial stability have worsened.
In the old Road Runner cartoons, Wile E. Coyote spent a lot of time running on air. Having run off a bridge or a cliff, he would remain remarkably buoyant for a while. Then he would look down and, of course, plummet to the floor.
Markets around the world have once again been spooked by Greece as the European Central Bank limited funding over the weekend and capital controls were imposed.
While Europe’s finance ministers were having another round of fruitless Greek bailout talks just a few blocks away, Luxembourg-based fund selectors proved just as divided on Greece’s economic future as Wolfgang Schäuble and Yanis Varoufakis.
GAM’s poll, which was conducted at a client event attended by 78 investors and featured prominently on the front page of the FTfm on Monday, shows that investors’ assessment about a Grexit has not really changed over the past weeks, athough Greece and its creditors keep failing to reach an agreement on the extension of Greece’s…
Barry Norris, the European equity manager and co-founder of London-based investment boutique Argonaut, is one of the most outspoken proponents of a Grexit. The refusal of the current ‘communist’ Greek government to commit to reforms means the country’s economy could never be able to stand on its own feet if it stays in the eurozone,…