Managers of Wealth

Multi-asset managers reveal how they cherry-pick the best

They’ve come a long way from their origins as convenient vehicles in which to combine equities, fixed income and property.

Benjamin, Woody and my nightmare by Penny Lovell

While I’m not entirely certain that Ben Franklin ever did say "a penny saved is a penny earned", I do know that Woody Allen said “money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Small is beautiful II by Tim Price

Size isn’t just a barrier to efficiency in asset management. Beyond a certain limit, size threatens operational performance in just about every facet of life. In the words of the late Dr. Albert Bartlett, emeritus professor of physics at the Univers

This is how the next financial crisis will spread around the world economy

Losses will be directed to insurance companies, pension funds and private investors – bailing them out may prove to be politically necessary

There's a 'revolution' coming to investing — and only the strong will survive

In Ang's opinion, the development of custom, factor-tailored products is going to usher in a whole different age of investing.

Cannes Film Festival Panicked By ‘ISIS Militia’ PR Stunt

On its website, Oraxy is described as “the world’s first private global marketplace reserved exclusively for UHNWI, which translates to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals.

PGA Tour commissioner: 'Enthusiasm' for Olympic golf

With the Olympic men's golf competition to be played from August 11-14, the year's final major, the PGA Championship, has been brought forward to late July from its traditional date in the second week of August.

Miton’s David Jane: The only certainty is uncertainty

This makes us feel that currency risk is elevated and also that short term interest rates will remain low for an extended period, even if the US has begun putting rates up.

GAM's Larry Hatheway on Markets - Dollar weakness and outlook for US interest rates

Higher US growth or inflation could reverse dollar sentiment

China: "Not as badly broken as some would suggest" - Matt Sheldon, Kleinwort Benson Investors

“Having visited those driving change in China, I am less confused and increasingly of the belief that the next few years will be stronger than the market currently predicts.”

Strategy Update from BNP Paribas Investment Partners

Looking beyond the disappointment in US employment growth

Are politics pivotal? by James Klempster, Momentum Global Investment Management

As a result individuals rightly worry about the likely outcome of general elections and referenda.

Friday 13th – unlucky for investors?

On Friday, you may still wish to keep a hold of a rabbit’s foot and treat mirrors with extra care, but it really shouldn’t be a day to avoid the stock markets

The Final Countdown - Quilter Cheviot

As voters up and down the country prepare to go to the polls on 23 June, Richard Carter, fixed interest specialist at Quilter Cheviot, assesses the potential impact on key asset classes.

UBS WM expects the Fed to hike twice in 2016

The economy will likely improve and the market will have to rerate

The nadir of the cyclical slowdown may be behind us by Mikio Kumada, CIIA, Global Strategist LGT Capital Partners

In the US, last week’s monthly payrolls report was weaker than expected, which received some negative attention. But job numbers are lagging indicators and April may have been little more than a subdued afterthought of the seasonally low-key winter

Damian Lewis: 'Hedge-fund billionaires are misunderstood'

As Lewis brings his impeccable American accent back as gazillionaire Bobby Axelrod in new show Billions, he talks Tony Blair, megalomania and megabucks

Potential implications Brexit will have on the M&A market by Adam Dowdney, Partner, IBB Solicitors

Over 50% of all European deals in 2015 took place in the UK, as the UK M&A market re-established itself as one of the most dynamic markets for domestic and cross-border transactions.

What would a world without tax havens look like? George Bull

More a case of ‘be careful what you wish for’?

The general trend of a slowdown in profits seems to be continuing - Guy Wagner (Banque de Luxembourg)

Although most companies have perfected the art of managing analysts’ expectations, the corporate earnings season is producing fewer surprises although the general trend of a slowdown in profits seems to be continuing.

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