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SECTOR ANALYSIS

Confusion over funds’ aims mars sector as higher equity weightings hurt returns

Investment Week | 28 Oct 2011

The IMA is consulting on scrapping current labels for the Managed sectors in favour of more simplified A, B, C, D categorisation.

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GEM managers stay defensive after tough 12 months

Managers in Global Emerging Markets sector are waiting for an end to EM tightening cycles and resolution of eurozone crisis

Investment Week | 21 Oct 2011

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Sector report: UK Equity and Bond managers tackle market volatility

Slight changes in performance is all that separates the leaders and the laggards in diminutive sector.

Investment Week | 14 Oct 2011

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How Active Managed fund managers tackled the downturn

The Active Managed sector has suffered from market volatility in the short term, but managers have held their nerve.

Investment Week | 10 Oct 2011

Winners from EMD shift focus to safer havens

Emerging market debt exposure drives long-term returns for funds in IMA Global Bond sector, while government debt is short-term winner.

Investment Week | 30 Sep 2011

Gold funds dominate specialist sector as global unrest persists

Risk aversion continues to rule as gold funds top charts in short and long term.

Investment Week | 23 Sep 2011

Top-performing UK small-cap funds navigate through market sell-off

Lack of financials exposure helps sector outperform other peer groups over one year but headwinds are building.

Investment Week | 16 Sep 2011

Summer market strife splits £ Corporate Bond investors

Managers who feared lower rates for longer shine, while optimists lose out following months of turmoil in global markets

Investment Week | 09 Sep 2011

Short gilt bets implode as rally splits £ Strategic Bond sector

Past six months in bond markets have seen a reversion to ‘safe haven’ assets such as gilts and treasuries

Investment Week | 02 Sep 2011

Severity of economic weakness wrong-foots US equity stalwarts

Floundering economic growth and political stalemate have rocked investors in the IMA North America sector

Investment Week | 26 Aug 2011

Investors chase high yield across Europe

European investors who pumped billions into high-yield bonds in first half of 2011 could see asset class faced with rising default rates.

Investment Week | 19 Aug 2011

Peripheral markets key as China swings from gloom to euphoria

Better-performing peripheral markets offer some protection during difficult few months in Asia ex Japan sector.

Investment Week | 29 Jul 2011

Future performance of new funds 'set in first six months'

Investors should wait six months before buying a newly-launched fund, and then only if it has already posted strong performance, according to analysis carried out by Dennehy Weller & Co.

Investment Week | 28 Jul 2011

Commodity sector hit by short-term growth worries

Release of emergency oil reserves has compounded fragility of commodities markets.

Investment Week | 22 Jul 2011

Commercial real estate a ‘safe haven’ as investors return to troubled sector

Study shows recovery in real estate prices is driving institutional investors back to sector.

Investment Week | 15 Jul 2011

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FDR, Reagan, Clinton or Obama: When were markets strongest?

Three years into Barack Obama's term as US president, how do equity market returns under this administration compare with those seen under previous leaders?

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Treasury calls for FATCA exemptions on eve of new proposals

HM Treasury is pressuring the US government for a ‘carve out’ on FATCA for low risk institutions, ahead of a draft paper due this week.

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Is now the time to snap up Greek debt?

London-based investment manager Exotix - the emerging and frontier markets specialist - is urging clients to buy into Greek debt and the country's stock market before it reaches a deal with creditors.

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Fund Manager Focus: OMAM's Stewart Cowley

Old Mutual Asset Managers’ Stewart Cowley has run the group’s £568m Global Strategic Bond fund since joining the company from Newton Investment Management in June 2009.

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Train: How I outperformed FTSE All Share during 2011

Lindsell Train founder Nick Train has revealed hefty positions in some of the more defensive stocks in the FTSE 100 helped him outperform the market substantially last year.

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