Risk
Beware the benchmark, says TOBAM fund manager
Money has flooded into benchmark-tracking exchange traded funds as investors chase low-cost access to major asset markets.
Alternatives | 14 Jan 16
Will multi-asset funds really deliver as markets head down?
Since Markowitz, multi-asset investing has been increasingly “en vogue”. The other trait that has caught the imagination – as well the attention of the regulators – is risk assessment.
Retirement | 1 Oct 15
A challenge to advisers on their knowledge of longevity
Have financial advisers factored in the issue of longevity in the right way when they do financial planning for clients? Nick Webb, UK platform strategic relationship manager at J P Morgan, thinks not.
Guernsey tops 800 licensed insurance companies
Guernsey said it has licensed 45 more international insurance companies in the first six months of 2015, bringing the total number of insurers operating in the channel island to 816.
Emerging Markets | 16 Aug 15
Report: Emerging markets elevated to high risk
Growing concerns in China and other emerging markets could lead to “a prolonged deceleration” and have a “severe knock-on effect across the EU and the US”, according to the most recent report on risk by the Economist Intelligence Unit.