monetary policy

Recent decisions by both the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have helped break the trend of tightening global liquidity conditions.

Too much faith placed on them

QE was once considered 'reckless'

Move to boost inflation

QE boosted asset prices in emerging markets

Osborne's first all-Tory Autumn Statement

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Strong innovators and providers of low-cost, but mission critical products and services are the best businesses to weather economic volatility.

Richard Jeffrey, chief investment officer at Cazenove Capital, argues that UK and US policymakers should have tightened monetary policies sooner rather than later.

Amid the rise of unconstrained fixed income funds and index strategies, it is easy to forget benchmark-relative, active fixed income mutual funds remain popular with investors - and with good reason.