For UK equity investors, the New Year has not started as brightly as the old one finished, but this does not mean the recovery has ended.
During periods of sharp recovery, investors seek out companies that share a combination of characteristics including poor relative returns in the market decline, attractiveness on stable measures of value such as book-to-price and high financial and operational...
James Smith's Ignis Global Growth fund tops IMA Global Growth sector over one year with returns of 50.7%, against 21.3% sector average
Whether markets will be able to absorb the huge government debt issuance that will be forthcoming once the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme ends is a hot topic at the moment.
The commercial real estate sector in the UK has had a rough time over the last couple of years.
Global Equity Income manager reaches first anniversary at helm with expected yield of 4.19%
The past two years have been, from a variety of perspectives, one of the most challenging periods in financial history.
Looking back over the past decade, the performance of emerging markets has brought approving comments from even the most hardened critics.
For some time we have primarily focused on defensiveness which has proved pertinent in terms of performance.
At the start of 2009 markets were in freefall, there were concerns about financial and economic meltdown and the last place you wanted exposure to was smaller companies with their higher risk and greater exposure to the domestic economy.