Belgium fund buyers opt for safety
Belgian fund selectors have become more cautious in their outlook for most asset classes. Macroeconomic optimism is also clearly on the wane.
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Plummeting oil price dominates markets
The continued plummeting of the price of oil is dominating global markets as the final month of 2014 begins.
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Fund managers keep faith in central bank rescue
Fund managers attending last week’s Expert Investor Geneva conference keep faith in central banks stopping their bleeding after the recent market sell-off.
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Finns caught by winter depression
A cocktail of the rapidly diminishing daylight, a collective angst for looming deflation and the devastating economic consequences of the conflict with Russia have resulted in a pretty downbeat mood among Finnish fund selectors.
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Swedes still entrenched in Russia fear
The centuries of conflict between Sweden and Russia still reflect in the Swedish fund selector mind set.
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Emerging markets enchant Bavarians
Emerging markets enthusiasm was sky high in Munich when our researcher visited fund selectors in the Bavarian capital last week.
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Bullish equity sentiment gets new boost
Equity bulls were told what they liked to hear at the Expert Investor Denmark event in Copenhagen last week.
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Video Russian annexation of the Crimea
How has the annexation of the Crimea peninsula by Russia affected fund selectors’ asset allocation?
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Prodi speaks out at EIE Pan-European congress
It was the US-led invasion of Iraq that served as a watershed for Vladimir Putin and made him adopt an anti-western course.
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Finns go contrarian with bet on EMD
Finnish fund selectors are ready to step up their investments in emerging market assets in a bid to diversify away from developed market bonds.
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Finns go contrarian with bet on EMD
Finnish fund selectors are ready to step up their investments in emerging market assets in a bid to diversify away from developed market bonds.