HEAD-TO-HEAD. The global fixed income market is undergoing a period of high volatility. While the European authorities are in final negotiation stages to save Greece from a potential default, the US looks set to hike interest rates sometime this year.
Half of global investors believe there will be a rotation from bonds to equities over the next three years, according to a survey by Principal Global Investors.
Asia-Pacific is expected to overtake North America as the region with the largest amount of private wealth by 2016, according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group.
For months the European equity market has been in the spotlight for many reasons, bad and good. This past week has been overshadowed by final stage negotiations between Greece and its creditors..
Further easing measures are expected as current economic indicators in China have not improved, AXA Investment Managers and Schroder said recently. Separately, Schroder’s recently cautioned on the overheating in China’s market while BlackRock said it would prefer a selective investment approach following the surge in A- and H-shares. In India, managers like Franklin Templeton said they expect Indian markets to rise as […]
A fall in domestic inflation and an improved current account deficit, along with a new reform-minded government, have been the key factors driving the market. “In spite of the rally, the market is not trading at valuations higher than its long-term average. Excess optimism has not been factored into current prices,” Rajah said in an […]
The last four years, emerging markets received $1.4trn in cumulative gross portfolio capital flows, but only around $200bn came from regulated funds, according to Christopher Plantier, ICI senior economist of industry and financial analysis, who authored the report. EM capital flow was analysed to put into perspective the size of regulated fund investment into those […]
The gap between perceived versus actual financial knowledge has driven Asian high net worth individuals to increase their investment knowledge, according to the M&G Asia wealth barometer. While wealth managers are the number one resource (55%) for sourcing investment ideas and information, digital media (48%) and friends and family (48%) also followed closely. But investors […]
Nearly 31% of the surveyed respondents said they are likely to invest in China equities if interest rates are reduced further this year.
Typical product structures that offer superior liquidity and guaranteed returns are encouraging the practice of churning of investments in the Asian mutual fund industry, according to a new study by Cerulli Associates.
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