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Discretionary Performance Criticised

The discretionary management industry has been slammed for delivering dire levels of performance to investors

Schroders creates framework to help overcome fixed income investor paralysis

Schroders Global Strategic Solutions team is today launching its latest in-depth thought piece which is titled ‘Fixed Income, Flexible Outcomes - Getting what you need from your bond portfolio’.

ING IM predicts year of global growth acceleration as US and Japanese economies drive expansion

Emerging markets require structural reform and different growth model to achieve potential

Who wants to join the ‘Naming and Shaming’ Club? by Mike Down

HMRC has been regularly publishing lists ‘naming and shaming’ tax dodgers around the country. But now there are more ambitious plans to ‘name and shame’ promoters of high-risk tax avoidance schemes, and we can expect to hear more d

Winds of Change By: Tom Becket, Chief Investment Officer, Psigma Investment Management

A wise old(er) man congratulated me earlier in the year in an e-mail because we had stayed the course in Japan

Growing Divergence By Neil Staines, ECU

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” John F Kennedy

Schroders Multi-Asset Insights: EMD, Europe and Low Volatility (for now!)

Multi-Asset Insights By Aymeric Forest and Matthias Scheiber, Multi-Asset Fund Managers, Schroders

Regulations pose threat to hedge fund start-ups - Pete Hess, President and CEO, Advent Software

As global regulations begin to take effect, launching a hedge fund from scratch will be even more challenging says Pete Hess, President and CEO, Advent Software.

Barings: Investment update on Russia

With the Federal Reserve having opted to keep policy unchanged at its latest meeting on the basis that the US economy still looks insufficiently strong, in our assessment, to survive without active central bank support, the focus for many investors has sh

Morningstar OBSR believes developed economies will contribute the largest year-on-year increase to global growth in 2014

Andy Brunner, investment strategist at Morningstar OBSR, believes developed economies will contribute the largest year-on-year increase to global growth in 2014:

St James's Place Weekly Market Bulletin

Global stock markets in the final months of 2013 look set to continue to move to expectations of central bank policies as further signs of recovery emerge across the advanced economies.

Some Financial Mutterings by Justin Urquhart Stewart

A week in New York is an invigorating experience with an opportunity to breathe deeply the strength of positive and creative thinking.

BlackRock Market Vision: Washington Drama Drives ETF Flows

October 2013 BlackRock ETP Landscape Report

France may be 'major pothole' in '14, says hedge fund star Hintze

CQS founder Michael Hintze, one of Europe's most influential hedge fund managers, has warned that France's struggling economy could present a "major pothole" for investors in 2014.

Multi-Asset Insights

Emerging market debt: is there more pain to come?

Here's the evidence that QE has harmed the UK economy

Pretty terrifying reading it makes too, hammering home the point that QE has been extremely beneficial to indebted governments and other borrowers, but on the whole very damaging to households, particularly elderly ones reliant on fixed income forms of sa

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