November 2014
Opinion Unresolved ESG issues persist in Canadian oil sands industry
During a recent visit to Canada, for the annual UN PRI signatory conference, I took the opportunity together with a few other investors to visit the oil sands operations in the Alberta region. What I heard and saw there made me realise that the Canadian oil sands industry (...)
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November 2014
Opinion The World eyes Europe
Headlines in Europe are again focused on weak economic growth but there remain many companies well placed to deliver. Analysis of Nick Sheridan, Fund manager Henderson Horizon Euroland.
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November 2014
Opinion Central banks: toward a bipolar world
Should one expect a huge differential in interest rates? Undoubtedly. According to René Defossez, having said that, this differential should be far more pronounced at the short end of the curve than at the long end. The reason is that short rates will be influenced directly (...)
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October 2014
Opinion India’s “Goldilocks moment”
A stable government, a can-do prime minister and a recovering economy may prove to be the best recipe yet for Indian stocks, according to Avinash Vazirani, manager of the Jupiter India Select SICAV fund. Add in a falling oil price, says Avinash, and Indian firms might just (...)
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October 2014
Opinion Equities: is the bull market under threat?
According to Keith Wade, Chief Economist at Schroders, equity markets have experienced a setback recently and this has led many strategists to question the longer term case for the asset class. However, he remains positive on shares and believes that equities can still (...)
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October 2014
Opinion When is it time for the SNB to think about the exit?
According to Goldman Sachs, the SNB’s exchange rate ceiling against the Euro is often seen as a binding constraint on its future interest rate decisions. But the exchange rate commitment is only likely to become a constraint on rate decisions if the CHF remains close to the (...)
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October 2014
Opinion Chinese GDP, a myth?
The slowdown of the Chinese economy, as reflected by GDP growth in Q3 2014, is not particularly serious. While there was a slight deceleration, GDP nonetheless increased by 7.3% year-on-year and by 1.9% quarter-on-quarter.
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October 2014
Opinion China focuses on quality as growth slows
Chinese GDP expanded 7.3% year on year in the third quarter, in line with Schroders’s forecast but slower than the second quarter reading of 7.5%.
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October 2014
Opinion The Recovery-less Recovery
Global risk assets have had a testing week last tweek; at the time of writing, the S&P 500 is more than 8.5% below the record high it achieved just a month ago. So why are markets rattled?
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October 2014
Opinion Institutional investors expect to see more emerging market equities paying high dividends over the next few years
New research from ING Investment Management (ING IM) amongst institutional investors reveals that between now and 2016, 61% believe the number of emerging market stocks paying these will increase – 14% anticipate a “dramatic” rise here. The corresponding figures for the next (...)
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September 2014
Opinion USA: an impression of capacity under-utilization…
Those who were hoping for a shift in tone from the Federal Reserve regarding an imminent rate hike, encouraged by increasing signs of a recovery in the US, will be disappointed. The Fed has reiterated its concerns over the dynamics of the (...)
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September 2014
Opinion Jokowi
After ten years of strong growth, the Indonesian economy is slowing considerably. This is because of the falling Chinese demand for commodities, the gradual normalisation of US monetary policy and an inevitable decline in government (...)
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September 2014
Opinion Equity Market : Perspectives of the financial sector
An ageing global population, a thirst for credit in emerging markets and an ever more complex regulatory environment for Western banks are reshaping the opportunities open to investors in the financials sector, according to Robert Mumby, manager of the Jupiter International (...)
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September 2014
Opinion Draghinomics
Events over the week proved once more that one-way-bets do not exist in global financial markets. Not many investors felt that it was still possible for the ECB to surprise on the upside after Mario Draghi’s comments at last months’ Jackson Hole (...)
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September 2014
Opinion Alibaba’s IPO could well be the end of US dominance in the world technology sector
According to Warwick Business School Professor Qing Wang, the strong performance and fast rise of the Chinese technology companies in the world may shock some outsiders. It is certainly helped by an enormous and fast growing domestic market, but there is (...)
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