Markets

Jason Hsu, co-founder of Research Affiliates, explores how investors can determine the most important performance and risk factors when putting together a portfolio, and ensure they have the most significance

The endeavour of projecting today's conditions, trends and relationships into the future inevitably results in errors of judgement - and economists continue to get caught out by the ever-changing market environment (often at the worst possible times)....

Asset management groups have just six more months to comply with the fifth iteration of the UCITS directive, which is set to increase the gap between UCITS and AIFMD funds and also overhaul fund manager remuneration policies. Charles Bathurst, consultant...

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Christine Tadros, head of European research at Xtract Research, highlights the key trends that have been seen in the first half of 2015, and which are likely to impact the market in the coming months

VIX long positions at record high

55% chance of global recession

Market wobbles make you realise how little ordinary investors know about the markets, bringing to the fore the challenge we face as an industry to communicate, writes Lawrence Gosling.

David Stevenson asks what the market turmoil of the past few weeks has really taught investors.

Pockets of value emerging