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Rising Global Cities: Schroders' Ones To Watch In 2018

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In this gallery, Hugo Machin, co-head of global real estate securities at Schroders, has highlighted investible cities ... Read more

M&G's Andrew: Yellen's 'do No Harm' Policy Will Not Be Good Enough For Powell's Federal Reserve

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2017 was a transitional year: for the first time since the global financial crisis, investor sentiment began a gradual ... Read more

ETF Snapshot: Flows Into US Large-cap ETFs Reach Fresh High

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US large cap ETFs saw record inflows in the week ending 26 January as investor bullishness on President Donald Trump's ... Read more

Fed Maintains Interest Rates Amid Inflation Concerns

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The Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday (31 January) and said inflation was likely to... Read more

Update: US Equities Follow Europe Lower As Bond Jitters Weigh

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US equities were down over 1% in early trading today, as the sell-off in global markets continues for a second day. Read more

ETF Snapshot: US Large Caps Record Massive €9bn Inflows On Trump Tax Boost

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In the week ending 8 December, US large-cap ETFs attracted huge inflows, according to data from TrackInsight, as US Pre... Read more

2018: Five Walls Of Worry... And Five Slopes Of Hope For Investors

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The old saying "markets like to climb a wall of worry" proved spot on in 2017, writes Russ Mould, investment director a... Read more

Fed Raises Rates For Third Time In 2017

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The Federal Reserve has raised rates for the third time from a range of 1% to 1.25% to a range of 1.25% to 1.5% at its... Read more

Diversification - The Magic Ingredient

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Many investors are tempted by tactical asset allocation - the practice of shifting a portfolio's weighting as the outlo... Read more

ETF Snapshot: All Equity Sectors Record Positive Flows

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In the week ending 1 December, US large-cap ETFs attracted the largest weekly flows across all asset classes, according... Read more

How Is The Tech Diversity Pledge Doing, 12 Months Later?

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In the summer of 2016, 30 tech companies signed a White House tech inclusion pledge in a bid to “fuel American innova... Read more

Facebook Disables Ethnicity-based Advertising Targeting

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Last week, a team of journalists at ProPublica published an investigative report, which found that the ad-targeting sys... 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

US Homeland Security Cyber Chief Warns That Too Much Depends On End Users

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Jeanette Manfra was in Dublin last week where she addressed the Institute of International and European Affairs about t... Read more

Plurimi's CIO Armstrong: 10-year Treasury Yields To Widen Beyond 4%

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Patrick Armstrong, CIO of Plurimi Investment Managers, has said 10-year Treasury yields will surprise many investors by... Read more

Which Active Managers Have Stormed Ahead Since Trump's Election?

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US equity markets have hit record highs in the year since Donald Trump's election as President on 8 November 2016, with... Read more

Update: Trump Names Powell To Replace Yellen As Fed Chair

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US President Donald Trump has announced he has nominated Jerome Powell as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. Read more

Opinion: A New Concept Of Risk Has Emerged For Investors

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Markets have realised they have a new concept of risk to play with: idiotic risk. Largely unquantifiable, we see many s... Read more

ETF Snapshot: All Asset Classes Record Positive Flows

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In the week ending 20 October, all asset classes saw positive flows, according to data from TrackInsight, with US equit... Read more