Dec 16, 2021
It’s planning time again! As we reach the end of the year, we reflect in many ways but also start to look to the following year - planning holidays, special occasions, thinking about a ‘stress-free’ Christmas and perhaps even some business planning!
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We are entering a new market regime unlike any in the past half century: We see another year of positive equity returns coupled with a down year for bonds. The powerful restart of economic activity will be delayed - but not derailed - due to new virus strains, in BlackRock's view.
Read moreNov 26, 2021
Many investors remain under-allocated to emerging markets, failing to recognise their increasing economic resilience, as well as their richness as a stock pickers’ hunting ground. For the first time, each of the five funds in the Horizon multi-asset range can invest in Emerging Markets equities. This ability – possible since 5 November 2021 – presents new opportunities for investors and bolsters portfolio efficiency, all within the funds’ strict risk boundaries.
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On the face of it, the millennial generation may not appear to offer much to your business as potential clients. However engaging with the next generation of investors could prove to be an important factor in ensuring your future prosperity - and conversely leaving this engagement too long, could mean that you’re too late.
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At the start of November 2020 I was expecting “a winter of discontent” due to rising COVID numbers, the return to national lockdowns in some countries, reducing economic activity, how central banks were continuing with their ultra-loose monetary policy and in markets, and why bonds and the FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) had remained in favour with investors. All in all, not a great outlook in the short term.
Read moreNov 16, 2021
It has been more than four years since the Investment Association launched the Volatility Managed sector. Its purpose, its director of capital markets Galina Dimitrova said at the time, was to “reflect the advent of more outcome focused products”.
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