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29Sep2015

What’s Hot? What’s Not? Property and Absolute Return vs Latin America and Commodities

29Sep2015

The reverberations from August volatility were still evident in September. Lower risk funds made up much of the Hot category while higher risk funds filled most of the Not Hot spots.

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Market commentary
29Sep2015

Index trackers: great idea or hype?

29Sep2015

Recent market turmoil seems to have pushed many worried investors towards tracker funds i.e. passive funds that track an index. Is this a good idea?

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Investment research
18Sep2015

Funds to buy for the (eventual) US rate rise

18Sep2015

In the US interest rates only have one way to go, and that is up. They just haven’t done so yet. For fund investors this presents an opportunity. How do you exploit it (without missing the boat)?

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Market commentary
18Sep2015

Bonkers Portfolio: mad profits

18Sep2015

We look at a more extreme (and more extremely profitable) momentum portfolio: the Bonkers portfolio.

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Generating growth
17Sep2015

Buy-to-let timebomb

17Sep2015

Tick Tock Tick Tock...

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Market commentary
11Sep2015

Property Confusion Exposed

11Sep2015

Many investors have been flocking into property funds seeking solace following a resurgence of volatility. Here we look again at the stark difference between bricks-and-mortar funds and property share funds and expose the dangers.

By Sam Lees

Membership Access | gold

Sector analysis
11Sep2015

How Many Funds Should I Hold?

11Sep2015

How many funds are there in the “perfect portfolio”? Recently, we have had a flurry of emails crossing our desks asking more or less the same question: how many funds should I have in my portfolio? Here’s a quick run-down of our thoughts on this often-asked question.

By Sam Lees

Membership Access | gold

Portfolio building
11Sep2015

Buy On St. Leger’s Day?

11Sep2015

The saying goes: sell in May and go away, buy again on St. Leger’s day. Is there evidence supporting this trend? And if you had taken this approach in 2015 would it have worked?

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Market commentary
03Sep2015

What’s Hot? What’s Not? Euro and bonds shine, China dims

03Sep2015

Markets were sent into a spin this month. European bonds dominate the winners; predictably China, Emerging Markets and Energy were in the vanguard.

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Market commentary
03Sep2015

What happens when liquidity dries up? Black Monday.

03Sep2015

Black Monday has been called one of the most volatile trading days ever. This volatility resulted from a drought of liquidity (a huge number of sellers but no buyers). Here we look at what happened and how you can protect yourself in the future.

By Brian Dennehy

Membership Access | gold

Market commentary

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