Views of tax raises 'overblown'
By now, the broad outlines of the case against US equities are familiar: after a long bull market, valuations look high.
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.
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.
UCITS version of fund available to US investors
S&P 500 up 16% in sterling terms
While US stocks reached record levels over the summer months, political turbulence in the US, heightened geopolitical activity - as a result of increasing tensions with North Korea - and investor concerns about the costly impacts of Hurricane Harvey weighed...