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Investment Conundrums: Quilter Cheviot's McIntosh On Why Brexit Fears Will Be Unfounded Just Like Y2K Bug

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Market fears over the upcoming departure of the UK from the European Union (EU) on 29 March are becoming like the 'Y2K ... Read more

US Treasury Yield Curve Flattens To Lowest Level Since Financial Crash

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The difference between short-duration and long-duration US Treasury yields narrowed to the lowest levels in over ten ye... Read more

Investment Conundrums: Pacific AM's Bartleet On Why His Single Largest Concern Is Complacency In Markets

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Will Bartleet, CIO of Pacific Asset Management, has said it is crucial to diversify away from equities and bonds in thi... Read more

Powell Marks Start Of Fed Tenure With Rate Rise; Warns Asset Prices Are 'elevated' In Some Areas

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The Federal Reserve has voted to raise US interest rates by 25bps in Jerome Powell's first meeting as chairman since t... Read more

ETF Snapshot: EMD Only Fixed Income Asset Class To Record Outflows

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In the week ending 2 March, emerging bonds recorded outflows for the first time in two weeks as investors expressed con... Read more

Multi-managers Raise Exposure To Alternative UCITS Funds Amid 'choppy Equity Valuations'

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Multi-managers increased allocations to alternative UCITS funds by 0.55% to over 10% during the fourth quarter of 2017 ... Read more

International Women's Day: Seven UK Fund Managers To Watch

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To celebrate International Women's Day, Chelsea Financial Services and FundCalibre hosted seven women in fund managemen... Read more

What Were The Best- And Worst-performing Funds And Sectors In February?

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In a month marked by a return of volatility and a sell-off in global markets, Adrian Lowcock, investment director at Ar... Read more

US Stocks Fall And 10-year Treasury Yields Widen Following Powell's 'positive' Outlook

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New Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's signal that the central bank could hike rates more than the anticipated th... Read more

ETF Select 100: Which Were The Worst-performing Funds In January?

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US bond funds were the worst performers in Selftrade's ETF Select 100 list during January, as worries over rising inter... Read more

Peripheral European Bond Yields Narrow As Merkel Forms 'grand Coalition' With SPD

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Southern European bond yields have narrowed after Chancellor Angela Merkel finally reached a coalition agreement "in pr... Read more

'Periods Such As This Offer Opportunity': Managers To Increase Market Exposure Amid Long-awaited Sell-off

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Managers have welcomed the "healthy" pullback in markets this week, claiming the increase in volatility is not the star... Read more

Warning Bond And Equity Market Sell-off Has Further To Run As Inflation Fears Build

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Managers have cautioned the sell-off in both bond and equity markets has further to run, pointing to the impact of the ... Read more

SocGen's Edwards: 10-year Treasury Yields Will Fall To -1% In The Next Recession

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Société Générale's bearish strategist Albert Edwards has told Investment Week he believes US 10-year Treasury yield... Read more

ETF Snapshot: High Yield ETFs Only Asset Class To Record Outflows

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High yield ETFs were the only asset class in the red among tracker funds in the week ending 12 January as investors rot... Read more

Kames' McNeill: Central Banks Will Revert To QE Very Quickly In The Next Downturn

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John McNeill, head of rates at Kames Capital, has said the biggest "real danger" for markets is not central banks reduc... Read more

S&P 500 Peak, 10% Correction, Credit Spreads Tightening: BofAML's Top Ten Macro Calls For 2018

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BofA Merrill Lynch (BofAML) global research team has said returns are still to be made as we enter the later stages of ... Read more

'Evolution To Be Faster And More Disruptive': Bond ETF AUM To Double To $1.5trn By 2022

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Total bond ETF asset under management (AUM) has been predicted to hit $1.5trn by 2022 with the evolution of the market ... Read more

The Big Short: Fund Managers Warn Of 'risky' Treasuries Trade Despite Rising Rate Environment

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Fund managers have cautioned on shorting US Treasuries despite the Federal Reserve's plans to hike rates and taper its ... Read more

'Catch 22' Situation As Venezuela Defaults On Debt

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Standard & Poor's has become the first ratings agency to downgrade Venezuela's credit rating to default status, fol... Read more