ANALYSIS
Investment Week | 23 Jan 2012
Recession risk has risen considerably in the eurozone. The core countries struggle to outweigh the weaknesses of the periphery. Also, the weaknesses in the financial sector are likely to start to impact on the real economy of the eurozone.
Having benefitted more from a defensive posture relative to the rest of Europe in 2011, the UK now stands to potentially offer somewhat greater growth potential for investors in 2012.
Investment Week | 23 Jan 2012
Last year was quite a remarkable year for bond markets, with high levels of volatility pushing investor sentiment to the limit. As we turn the corner into 2012, macro risks will likely ensure further market turbulence.
Investment Week | 23 Jan 2012
OTHER ANALYSIS ARTICLES
As the New Year begins and television adverts quickly change to prompt us to get healthy, having encouraged us to indulge just a few days earlier, in equity markets we learn just how successful retailers were in persuading us to spend over the festive season.
Investment Week | 23 Jan 2012
The healthcare sector had a positive 2011 and outperformed a difficult environment for equities.
Investment Week | 23 Jan 2012
The market clearly faces some significant challenges in 2012. We anticipate that, at least in the short-term, newsflow on the European debt crisis will continue to be the key driver of investor sentiment.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
Setting a firm strategy for the whole year is difficult given there are still so many moving parts, but for now we prefer to proceed with caution, with several ‘insurance policies’ remaining in place.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
A square-root-shaped economic recovery has been our team’s US economic forecast since 2009.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
At the turn of the year, the investor’s gaze turns to the crystal ball to divine the prospects for the new year.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
While many of the oft-quoted benefits of emerging markets are valid, it is important to remain open to the risks the asset class faces.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
“China faces new and more difficult challenges today than before. The property bubble is an increasingly worrisome source of internal instability. This time, it will be much tougher for China to avoid a meaningful slowdown. It’s time for the rest of the world to prepare for just such a possibility.”
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
With bond yields continuing near all-time lows, investors at the same time should not underestimate the risk in bonds. Therefore, equities remains an asset class to be considered.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
2011 was a year of polarisation. Large companies performed better than medium-sized and smaller companies, defensives better than cyclicals, and high yielders better than other classic value styles such as low price to book.
Investment Week | 16 Jan 2012
With the BRIC story now in the investment mainstream, other new and exciting opportunities are beginning to emerge, and in our view, perhaps one of the most exciting of these is Africa.
Investment Week | 10 Jan 2012
Investors in US markets have an uncertain global macroeconomic environment to contend with – the most recent bout of market volatility being driven by events unfolding in Europe.
Investment Week | 10 Jan 2012
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