Equities
Despite continued uncertainty across equity markets, UK dividends are solid and are expected to remain so into 2012, according to managers of the JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trust and JPMorgan Income and Capital Trust...
With unrest in the Middle East and the high oil price unlikely to quell concerns about inflation and growth, investors may well be feeling cautious about markets...
EDX London, London Stock Exchange Group’s international derivatives market has this week gone live with dividend futures on six Russian International Order Book underlyings...
By Mike Jones The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and City of London Police (CoLP) have contacted 1000 people across the UK to warn them that their personal details are on a "master list" being used by fraudsters to target and sell them worthless shares...
By Mike Jones Execution-only broker Halifax Share Dealing is rewarding customers by removing the £11...
By Mike Jones Aegon Asset Management is launching a UK Equity Absolute Return Fund which aims to capitalise on the group's successful UK equity investment process from its award-winning UK equity team...
By Mike Jones The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued a warning following the dramatic increase in overseas fraudsters selling shares using the names, registration numbers and addresses of FSA authorised firms and individuals...
By Mike Jones Baring Asset Management’s latest global economic research reveals that the US recovery is still well below "normal" for the current point in its economic cycle...
By Mike Jones After a difficult start to the year caused by a moderate rise in the reserve requirement ratio for banks, China’s stock market has rallied during the first of half of February...
By Mike Jones Paul Wimborne, manager of the Baring Emerging Markets Fund, believes outstanding investment opportunities currently lie in emerging market companies with global exposure in regions such as Korea, but is cautious on Brazil in the short-term...
By Mike Jones Fund managers are confident that higher equity returns and positive, albeit modest, economic growth will manifest a continued global recovery, according to a survey conducted by global professional services firm Towers Watson...
By Mike Jones Jersey-based investment manager Ashburton has been awarded an A rating by Standard and Poors for its Japan Equity Fund...
By Mike Jones Global equity markets posted strong returns from March 2009 onwards, resulting in the best calendar-year return from the MSCI AC World Index since its inception in 1987...
By Mike Jones The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a London based hedge fund manager and fined him £140,000 for deceiving investors by mis-marking funds he managed and misleading the FSA during the investigation...
By Mike Jones The Investment Management Association has published figures for the fund management industry for December and the full year of 2009...
By Mike Jones The FTSE 100 Index fell slightly this morning following yesterday's 1.1% rise. Takeover speculation fuelled Monday's increase with a potential bid for Northumbrian Water increasing shares elsewhere in the sector...
By Mike Jones Asset management firm Ashburton has increased its Japanese equity weighting. Tristan Hanson, manager of asset allocation and strategy at Ashburton, said: "Early in the year we increased the equity weighting of Japan relative to other regions within our Multi Asset and Asset Management Funds...
By Mike Jones Stock markets in the Euro-Zone broadly fell for the sixth day in the last seven. Generally better-than-expected European Commission confidence readings did little to halt the slide...
By Mike Jones Mirae Asset Global Investments, one of Asia’s leading asset-management companies, has announced that its SICAV range of funds focused on Emerging Markets and the Asia-Pacific region, has been registered for UK distribution...
By Mike Jones The UK Innovation Investment Fund is off the ground with the first closing of the £125million Hermes Private Equity environmental innovation fund...
By Mike Jones Neil Rogan, Head of Global Equities at Gartmore, is anticipating a sharp recovery in corporate profitability in the coming months...
By Mike Jones Global stock indexes fell more than 3% last week as markets reacted to the announcement by US President Barack Obama to limit risk-taking by banks...
By Mike Jones Investors have rediscovered their risk appetite and are putting cash reserves to work across the equity markets, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for January...
By Mike Jones The global private wealth management market now manages an estimated US $7.11trillion in equities as the sector continues its journey back into the asset class following the global economic turmoil...
By Mike Jones Halifax Share Dealing has launched Fantasy Trader - giving investors an opportunity to trade on real stock markets, with a virtual £10,000 through a practice share dealing account...
By Mike Jones The retail structured product division of global financial services firm Citigroup is targeting the UK independent financial adviser (IFA) market with a new fund...
A number of UK technology companies are preparing to go public this year. The moves signal an end to a three-year drought, the FT reports...
By Joshua Raymond, market strategist at City Index European markets recovered lost ground on Thursday after two days of losses after investors speculated that Intel's earnings may supersede expectations...
Doom and gloom abounded in the first quarter with market falls of over 20 per cent, but investor confidence returned and the market raced away, rising over 40 per cent from the low point, according to Hargreaves Lansdown...
The next financial crisis will strike within the first half of this decade, according to the majority of the world’s senior banking and compliance officers...
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