Towards the end of the year, conservative portfolios fared better compared to the balanced and aggressive portfolios.
Author Archives: Fund Selector Asia
Volatility on upswing: Time to revisit your bond allocation
Not all fixed income funds are created equal. Some of them may not be as defensive as one would expect. Analyse the risks of your fixed income allocation in today’s late-cycle.
Happy Holidays from Last Word Asia
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Last Word Asia. We will take a holiday break.
FSA’s top 20 articles for 2018
We present the most read articles of the year on Fund Selector Asia and the single most viewed Head-to-Head feature.
Top 20 Greater China articles
The top 20 most read Greater China articles of 2018 suggest a strong interest in foreign firms’ China onshore strategies.
Mutual Fund Top Trumps – Global high yield bonds
This week FSA presents a quick comparison of two global high yield bond products: The JPM Global High Yield Bond Fund and the Pimco GIS Global High Yield Bond Fund.
FE Advisory Asia Portfolio review – November 2018
The firm’s balanced portfolio added more emerging market equities and fixed income because valuations have become more attractive.
Top 10 most popular ACIF articles
The top 10 most read Asset Class in Focus articles of 2018 represent a mixture of topics, dominated by fund flows.
Robo-advisor performance: November 2018
The three robo-advisers continued to have negative returns for all their portfolios.
Convertible bonds: opportunity knocks
Looking past negative headlines regarding tariffs and trade wars, the world is currently seeing healthy albeit slower economic growth and upward pressure on interest rates due to the phasing out of monetary stimulus. Such an environment presents a buying opportunity for Convertible Bonds (CBs). CBs’ equity-like characteristics mean they benefit from economic growth while they are only modestly impacted by rising rates because of their low effective duration, which averages 1.8 years across the asset class.
