Financial express
28 October 2011
It is perhaps unhelpful that the investment industry is wedded to the notion that volatility is analogous to risk. Volatility is a simple measure of market movements and is often misunderstood.
01 November 2010
An oil and gas overweight has been the biggest driver of outperformance for the £99m J.P. Morgan Smaller Companies investment trust over the past year.
01 September 2010
Incisive Media today launches Adviserhound.com, the industry’s first financial find engine designed specifically to cater for the day-to-day business needs of financial advisers.
20 August 2010
The IMA sectors have been a bastion of stability for over a decade, providing a structure to compare funds against their peer group. But they now need changing.
10 August 2010
UK equity income fund managers have made a strong move into integrated energy company Centrica after shifting out of BP on the suspension of its dividend.
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