Investment

Oliver Wallin, multi-manager investment director at Octopus Investments, has called for more providers to offer hedged share classes on their funds.

Rayner Spencer Mills Research's Ken Rayner looks back on a year in fixed income markets, and considers what 2015 may hold for bond funds as interest rate rises loom large.

Former Aberdeen UK discretionary sales head Neil Steedman has joined Matthews Asia head of UK business development.

Morningstar OBSR is no longer advisers' preferred ratings service, according to a poll of over 600 conducted by Schroders.

Hasley Investment Management has relaunched under the name 8AM Global, with a restructured fund range, as former Miton manager Tom McGrath becomes a partner in the business.

Interest rates have been at record low levels for over five years, but an interest rate hike in the near future is inevitable and investors need to protect portfolios against it.

Beware currency wars in 2015

Investors in frontier markets are among the bigger winners of 2014. The MSCI Frontier Markets returned 17.9% in the year to 3 December 2014, compared to a paltry 5.2% for the MSCI Emerging Markets.

Europe's economy is clearly deteriorating, with the stand-off between Germany and the peripheral nations continuing to hamper attempts to reform the region.

Equity valuations have been distorted by asset price inflation following QE, and the market is awash with the evidence, says BBH's Regina Lombardi.