Small caps seem to be an immediate turn off to a lot of investors, with fixations on aggregate valuations and volatility meaning the better risk-adjusted returns that can be made within this asset class are often overlooked.
The US Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates at the end of 2015 marks a new phase for markets in the post-2008 recovery,writes Mark Harris, head of multi asset at City Financial.
So far in 2016, we have seen increased volatility and falling equity markets, but are investors ignoring the progress in the US as a result?
With the help of the dividend component in the total return equation, US markets posted their eighth consecutive positive return in 2015, making this bull market which started with the quantitative easing of 2009 go uninterrupted, despite the intra-year...
Although the S&P 500 index suffered its worst annual performance since 2008 last year, large technology positions and a focus on the growth drivers of tomorrow helped boost returns for the Natixis Loomis Sayles US Equity Leaders fund in 2015.