Investment Strategy
Mirae launches first-sharia compliant fund
Mirae Asset Global Investments has launched a sharia-compliant version of its flagship Mirae Asia Sector Leader Equity fund.
Best Practice | 18 Nov 16
ANALYSIS: FCA report puts closet trackers on notice
Unsurprisingly, most of the responses hitting the inboxes of industry journalists through the course of an otherwise quiet Friday began with “welcoming” messages to the FCA interim report on the asset management industry.
Fixed Income | 17 Nov 16
ANALYSIS: Should bears buy bond proxies on weakness?
If a week is a long time in politics, then in markets it can make or break a trader, while heightening the contrarian instincts of investors with a longer-term view.
ANALYSIS: With the election over Trump risk heads east
Winter is coming, but instead of flying south, the flock of black swans that has pecked away at 30 years of globalisation this year is heading east toward Europe.
European investors lukewarm about US equities – but Trump can change that
European investors have been rather apathetic about US equities for an extended period. This is unlikely to change if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential elections. A Trump win, however, will probably prompt a pronounced shift in sentiment.