09/01/2016
Diversification and noncorrelation paid off for many advisors in the second quarter, especially those who allocated more to alternatives, such as managed futures and intermediate-term bonds.
09/01/2016
The firm argues the switch in performance advantage towards funds over the shorter time period will principally reflect a widening of investment trust discounts.
08/31/2016
Fund managers with wealthy backgrounds perform the worst
The analysis also found managers from families in the bottom quartile of wealth needed to demonstrate annual returns 6.6 percentage points a year higher to stand as likely a chance of promotion as their higher status peers from the 75th percentile.
08/31/2016
London remains ‘most prosperous UK city’ but others are catching up
Every part of the UK is more prosperous than it was last year, according to the second edition of the annual Barclays Prosperity Map.
08/31/2016
Sixty per cent of those surveyed identified capital value growth as their main financial investment driver across all asset classes.
08/31/2016
Saudi Arabia is targeting improvements in tourism and leisure in its Vision 2030 plan.
08/31/2016
Equity benchmarks are largely disconnected from local fundamentals. They march in time with the dollar and US interest rates instead.
08/30/2016
Findings from the 2016 digital business global executive study and research report
08/29/2016
China Leads Global Fintech Investments, Accenture Finds
Asia-Pacific nearly doubles 2015 fintech financing in first half of 2016 reaching almost $10 billion; growth driven by China
08/29/2016
As market share for the independent channel continues to grow, so do the practices of Barron’s ranked advisors.
08/29/2016
The fund, set up to safeguard Norway’s oil wealth, has long acted as a backstop for global equity markets
08/26/2016
Vulnerabilities are rising on a dangerous trajectory and buffers, while still adequate, are eroding.
08/26/2016
The airline food addict is looking to make a documentary about the subject.
08/25/2016
COTRI found that there were 64 million border crossings from Mainland China between January and June of 2016, resulting in a growth rate of 3.4 percent.
08/25/2016
While global analytics firm Cerulli Associates is confident that the UK's decision to leave the European Union is not a game changer, it acknowledges that the fund groups worst affected by the summer's outflows may have to increase marketing eff
08/24/2016
Jefferson National’s second annual Advisor Authority study addresses many more of the investing and advising issues confronting RIAs
08/24/2016
The increasing strength of the Franc has made already up-market Swiss exports even more expensive, reducing their appeal.
08/24/2016
But the country is also high on the list of the the wealthiest people.
08/24/2016
It set out to unpack such issues as the risks and benefits AI would bring to the sector as well as the associated regulatory and legal challenges.
08/24/2016
Investors in rare whisky can drink to a price increase of 350 per cent, while stamp collectors have it licked, with 295 per cent growth.