Bought from ETF Securities

Business will be re-segmented

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The demographic trend of the ageing of the population makes it likely that income investing will remain a primary area of focus for decades to come, writes Iman Brivanlou, managing director of high income equities at TCW.

As is often the case with sequels, MiFID II is more ambitious, more expansive and arguably more confusing than its predecessor.

Rising trend

Japanese ETFs haven been the winners in terms buying

Increasing correlation between bonds and equities, rising interest rates, increased geopolitical risk and potentially overheating markets appear to have eroded many of the diversification benefits of the 60:40 balanced portfolio.

The disruptive industries of robotics, automation and artificial intelligence have come to the fore over recent years, with headlines commonplace, including driverless cars reducing road accidents, intelligent fridges doing your shopping and robots increasing...

Entering 2017, we expected a stockmarket 'melt-up' to the 2,550-2,600 level on the S&P 500 - a move we thought might run into trouble by late summer.