Investment Conundrums: Rathbones CIO Chillingworth eyes yield curve inversion in 2018 for equity market peak

Confident China will avoid slowdown

Rathbones CIO Julian Chillingworth has said the potential for yield curve inversion and discussions around China's future growth path are key issues shaping his team's investment approach in 2018.

He said Rathbones' investment team is confident equities will outperform bonds this year, and its allocations will preference developed over emerging markets, but they will be tracking bond yield curves closely as they tend to be a good indicator of when investors may begin to exit markets. New Capital's Leithead on where to invest in the fixed income landscape Speaking to Investment Week, he said: "Yield curves are flattening so we will be monitoring closely for an inversion. "It is something a lot of investors have not had to worry about for a number of years, as we have been in ...