January 2015
Opinion What would happen in case of Grexit?
According to William Davies, Head of global equities at Threadneedle Investments if Greece leaves the euro, contagion will be feared, the volatility of a currency under threat will resurface, and we revisit the throes of the euro crisis we endured a few years back. Not our (...)
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December 2014
Opinion How Could They?
According to William H. Gross, markets are reaching the point of low return and diminishing liquidity. Investors may want to begin to take some chips off the table: raise asset quality, reduce duration, and prepare for at least a halt of asset appreciation engineered upon a (...)
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December 2014
Opinion Extraordinary times… winners and losers in the oil game
We are living and investing in extraordinary times. Investors face a ‘perfect storm’ of risks which are correlating and affecting markets. The largest headlines are being generated by the movements in energy markets as Brent crude oil has fallen by 45% so far this year in US (...)
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December 2014
Opinion Indian interest rates may likely to fall soon
With disinflationary pressures building in India, it may only be a matter of time before interest rates start to fall materially.
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December 2014
Opinion When Smart Is Not That Smart
Can Beta Become Smarter? Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe introduced the notions of “beta” and “alpha” decades ago. Put simply, Sharpe defined beta as a measure of a portfolio’s sensitivity relative to the market. Under this definition, it is difficult to fathom how (...)
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December 2014
Opinion Oil, caught in the cross-hairs of the currency war ?
According to Raphaël Gallardo, Strategist – Investment and client solutions at Natixis Asset Management, the fall in the oil price is attributable to a real phenomenon (the downward revision in global energy demand), but which he considers to be amplified by macro-financial (...)
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December 2014
Opinion Rough times for South America
Gone is the dynamic growth that propelled Latam as one of the top performing asset classes between 2010 and 2012. Just as western economies were attempting to regain their footing, following the 2008 financial devastation, South American economies were on a (...)
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December 2014
Opinion 2015 Market Outlook: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Forecasts Bull Market Slows to a Jog in 2015
Bullish on Stocks, Dollar, Volatility and Real Estate Opportunities to Be Found in Commodities and Emerging Markets
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December 2014
Opinion It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong
According to Paul Jackson, Paul Jackson, Managing Director and Head of Multi-Asset Research at Source IM, it is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong. He underweights bonds - but not high yield, and overweights equities and real (...)
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December 2014
Opinion Investing in Africa is not as risky as you might think
African equities are perceived to be very risky. But the surprise conclusion of new Robeco research is that the volatility of African equities overall is lower than in the other emerging markets regions.
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December 2014
Opinion Brave Value Investing
According to Société Générale’s cross asset research team, there are two types of value investor: patient value investors, who seek to benefit from compounding above-average dividend yields offered by quality companies; and brave value investors, who seek to gain from a share (...)
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December 2014
Opinion Shiny New Name or Genuinely New Idea?
The term ‘Smart Beta’ has recently established itself as the clear winner in the battle to become the investment industry’s preferred label for an eclectic mix of diverse investment strategies. The common thread linking these various ‘Smart Beta’ approaches is the objective of (...)
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November 2014
Opinion Investment outlook: Mind the gaps in the turtle cycle
Regional differences in growth and policy will drive international financial markets next year. This is the view of Asoka Wöhrmann, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management in his outlook for (...)
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November 2014
Opinion China is becoming middle aged, so it’s slowing down a bit
In some ways, the rise of China has been too good to be true. Its economy has grown with breakneck speed for decades (an average of 9.1% a year since 1994, with a lowest rate of 6%) – if we can believe the official (...)
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November 2014
Opinion Volatility creates buying opportunities in emerging markets fixed income
Emerging markets debt will offer investors compelling buying opportunities when US interest rates start to normalize, according to Greg Saichin, CIO Emerging Market Debt at Allianz Global Investors, the EUR 387 billion asset (...)
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