Finding long-term opportunities in emerging market equities
Leigh Innes reveals where T. Rowe Price’s emerging market equity team finds the best structural opportunities.
Iceland
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Responsible investing can lead to outperformance
Investing in companies that have strong sustainability credentials can deliver alpha, says BMO Asset Management’s Nick Henderson.
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ANALYSIS: EM outperformance – will the consensus hold?
There seems to be an investor consensus that EM stocks will continue to outperform both in the short and medium term. But what does that say about the absolute returns to be expected, and how should investors assess the dual threat Donald Trump and Fed rate hikes?
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Icelandic investors binge on foreign assets
Following the lifting of capital controls in March this year, Icelandic investors can again freely invest in foreign assets. And they are already taking full advantage.
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Expert Investor Iceland May 2017 – Photo Gallery
Here you can see a slideshow of photos taken at Expert Investor Iceland, held on 9th May in Reykjavik.
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Rock-bottom interest rates are biggest threat to investors, says fund manager
Record-low interest rates are the number-one risk to investors, even if they stay at their current levels, said Greg Woodard, who is part of the management team of the GAM Star Global Quality Fund.
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Expert Investor Iceland photo gallery
Here you can see a slideshow of photos taken at Expert Investor Iceland, held on 8 June 2016 in Reykjavik.
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Icelandic investors – more eurosceptic than the British
Iceland’s investor community has withdrawn its support for EU membership, a poll conducted in Reykjavik at the Expert Investor Iceland Forum suggests. Icelanders now consider themselves more eurosceptic than Brits.
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“We will invest more abroad after lifting of capital controls” – Gardar Jon Bjarnason
The Icelandic government announced this month that capital controls, which stop Icelandic investors from increasing their exposure to foreign assets, will finally be lifted.
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Icelandic fund buyers plan to raid the world
The announcement by the Icelandic government last week that it is planning to lift the capital controls on the island can already now be seen as a watershed moment for local fund selector polls, at the Expert Investor Iceland held last week in Reykjavik revealed.
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Icelandic fund selectors want to join euro
Although the Icelandic economy is back on a steady growth path, with GDP growth at 1.9% in 2014, strict capital controls, a relic of the banking crisis which struck the country in 2008, are still in place. Since autumn 2008, Icelandic investors have not been able to move any of their capital out of Iceland.…
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Market turbulence leaves mark on Fund Picker
The market volatility of recent months has led to a radical shift in fortunes for the participants in EIE’s Fantasy Fund Picker Competition.