Appetite for high yield bonds is at its strongest for almost three years: some 40% of the fund selectors our researcher met on his trip to Madrid earlier this spring will up their exposure while only 10% are going to sell. The comeback of high yield is all the remarkable considering appetite was at an…
As Spain is now the fastest-growing eurozone country, with year-on-year GDP growth of 2% in the final quarter of 2014, fund selectors in the capital Madrid are now Europe’s biggest optimists when it comes to the economic prospects. A record 80% of fund selectors have a positive macroeconomic outlook, while bears are nowhere to be seen.…
Appetite for alternative Ucits products among fund selectors in Barcelona has come down considerably since October. Especially long/short bond funds have fallen out of grace.
Fund selectors in Barcelona are convinced Spanish bonds are overpriced. But bond fund managers brazenly told the crowd that they will edge even lower, at least in the short term.
Despite rising market volatility, Catalan fund selectors remain bullish on emerging markets.
Global equities are popular from Norway to Spain. These two countries are actually the two were the number of buyers is highest.
The recent market volatility has not affected Catalan fund selectors’ outlook for European equities.
The recent market volatility has not affected Catalan fund selectors’ outlook for European equities.
Fund selectors attending Expert Investor Europe’s Alternative Ucits Congress in Versailles in October tell us what alternative strategies they are investing in now.
Net inflows into mutual funds by Spanish and Italian investors spiked in the first eight months of 2014
Investors are desperately looking for alternatives to traditional fixed income, but why not resort to dividend-stocks as an alternative to bonds?
Despite record-low yields, government bonds are more popular than ever with Norwegian fund selectors.
