Equities

Asia

Managers: MSCI A-share inclusion opens up opportunities in 'superior' companies

Added to indices last week

clock 30 May 2018 • 5 min read

Equities

Eaton Vance: an alternative to hedging downside risk

INDUSTRY VOICE: The resurgence in equity market volatility in 2018 has again focused investor attention on how to limit downside risk in a portfolio without giving up too much of the upside potential associated with long-term equity investing.

clock 29 May 2018 • 1 min read

Europe

'We should now call this a crisis': Italian bond yields surge to highest since 2012 amid snap election fears

Government bond yields soar

clock 29 May 2018 • 5 min read

Asset Managers

SLA to return £1.75bn to shareholders after Phoenix sale

Share buyback representing 15% of market cap

clock 29 May 2018 • 3 min read

Equities

Managed separation update: Old Mutual to offer up to 9.6% of Quilter in demerger

Listing on 25 June

clock 29 May 2018 • 2 min read

Equities

SJP replaces BlackRock on alternatives fund amid raft of changes

Hires Wellington Management

clock 25 May 2018 • 2 min read

UK

R&M's Sergeant: Brexit and Corbyn fears make UK equities 'cheapest in the world'

Investors have shunned UK stocks ever since the country voted to leave the European Union, with more than £1.8bn flowing from the Investment Association's UK All Companies sector in 2017 alone, writes River & Mercantile's Hugh Sergeant.

clock 25 May 2018 • 2 min read

Emerging markets

The frontiers set to cash in on China's $6trn 'Silk Road' initiative

'One Belt, One Road'

clock 24 May 2018 • 1 min read

Emerging markets

Moody's: Which emerging markets are most vulnerable to sharp rise in US interest rates?

Latin America and Caribbean at risk

clock 24 May 2018 • 2 min read

Industry Voice

The long and short of it: what derivatives say about human nature

Industry Voice: For Warren Buffett, derivatives were once "financial weapons of mass destruction", but for Insight Investment portfolio manager Colin Bennett they enable access to investment opportunities that can generate returns through different market...

clock 24 May 2018 • 7 min read
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