On the surface they may seem calm and collected, even confident, but down deep gold bugs are feeling jittery over falling gold prices. Signs of strengthening global recovery, improving investor sentiment, and equity market rallies are collectively working to curb investors’ enthusiasm for gold, putting downward pressure on the yellow metal, reports FT.com. Gold’s given […]
Advisor.ca has access to the industry’s top analysts and commentators, and they’ve had plenty to say recently about the direction the market is heading in, and how to take advantage of it.
There appears to be an undeclared tug of war between gold bugs and economists over gold’s role in portfolio performance. Those sold on gold insist there’s never been a better time to buy the yellow metal, but a report in The Globe and Mail says economists argue gold’s glorious days are now in the rearview […]
Investors should know the differences between equity and bond indices.
Undaunted by the string of new hedge funds that failed to take off, JPMorgan’s global head of equity proprietary trading, Deepak Gulati, is said to be parting ways to launch a hedge fund in Switzerland. Considered one of the bank’s most successful traders, Gulati has passed over London to make Zeg, the low-tax Swizz town, […]
Investment managers are in for a tough five years, says new research.
Your clients know good value and want items when they’re on sale. This also applies to the stock market.
Investors using active management will always experience bouts of underperformance to get results.
Having underperformed and failed in their role as an effective hedge against inflation, commodities have been suffering enormous funds retractions from investors. Last year, commodities hedge funds had the worst performance in a decade and lost 20% of their assets after investors withdrew large sums, reports FT.com. The negative investor sentiment for the asset class […]
Pension funds and other institutions are cutting back on commodity-related investments after they failed to hedge their portfolios against inflation risk.