Investment | 12 Jul 18
Nick Train: Value was a 20th-century phenomenon
Finsbury Growth & Income mananger Nick Train has played down stretched price-to-earnings ratios on companies like Hargreaves Lansdown as he warns digital disruption could mean value investing is consigned to the last century.
Investment | 11 Jul 18
Services boost GDP as UK pursues goods-centric Brexit
Services have bolstered UK GDP growth less than a week after Prime Minister Theresa May outlines plans to pursue a Brexit trading relationship with the European Union focused on goods.
Best Practice | 10 Jul 18
Are advisers blindly buying into strategic bonds?
The return of inflows into sterling strategic bond funds has raised concerns advisers are blindly allocating money into the sector without understanding it is not just a one-stop shop for outsourcing fixed income asset allocation.
Investment | 4 Jul 18
DFM behemoths blamed for widening trust discounts
Wealth managers have been accused of rapidly moving away from the investment trusts sector creating wide discounts in some parts of the market.
Alternatives | 4 Jul 18
ESG investors face mixed bag with bitcoin and blockchain
Cryptocurrencies should be viewed critically from an environmental, social and governance (ESG) perspective, but the blockchain technology that underlies them could have positive applications for democracy and economic inclusion, according to a sustainable investments rating agency.