Four reasons why the cost of your investments are falling
4. Competition Passive funds have a choice of competing indexes to track, but the only real way for them to differentiate is on price. If an asset manager offers the cheapest tracker fund for a...
View ArticleWoodford to launch higher income fund paying 5pc
The new fund, like the existing one, will invest mainly in UK stocks and can invest up to 20pc in overseas companies. The fund will invest only in listed companies. A high income variant of the...
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Source exchange traded fund launch draws $925m
Source, the London-based asset manager, has drawn $925m of assets into a new commodity exchange traded fund launched in early January, marking the strongest product debut on record in the European ETF...
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Trump cheerleading boosts investment in Russia
Just weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, the billionaire Republican posted a series of comments on Twitter about Russia. “Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing,”...
View ArticleSunday Papers: US rate hikes 'could bring recession'
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View ArticleMarkets Spotlight: the costs of protectionism
Our round-up of the week’s best comment and analysis from the Financial Times focuses on the effects of Donald Trump’s protectionist policies, the future of a stronger dollar and oil prices. The...
View ArticleLondon gold traders see value in transparency push
London’s centuries-old gold market is to usher in an era of transparency with plans to reveal how much bullion is held in vaults in and around the city, including those controlled by the Bank of...
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Philippine metals industry fights Duterte over ban
The Philippines metals industry has vowed to fight a clampdown by President Rodrigo Duterte’s government that would shut more than half the country’s mines and slash nickel ore shipments from the...
View ArticleAdecoagro aims to sell grain to Mexico amid US trade uncertainty
A South American farming company backed by investors including George Soros aims to sell grain to Mexico as it capitalises on the country’s deteriorating trade relations with the US since Donald...
View ArticleGuinness' new exploration trust isn't relying on the oil price
Guinness Asset Management’s soon-to-launch oil and gas exploration investment trust will not just rely on the direction of the oil price to make money for shareholders, say the managers Stephen...
View ArticleOne adviser's master plan to make pensions simple again
Over 10 years since the original pensions simplification legislation, things are more complicated than ever. What with annual allowances, tapered annual allowances, lifetime allowances, carry forward,...
View ArticleFTSE rises as Randgold shines on dividend hike
Randgold Resources (RRS) has led the FTSE 100 higher after announcing a 52% hike to its dividend to $1 per share after a 76% rise in fourth quarter profits. Shares in the gold miner jumped 4.9%,...
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Turkey: caught between strong USD and weak economy
Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Talk about being sandwiched between a rock and a hard place. Or, in this case, one hard man and another. Yet this is exactly where Murat Cetinkaya, governor of...
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French-German bond spread nears four-year high
Bond investors are demanding the highest premium to hold French debt over German in almost four years as the country’s presidential election drama weighs on appetite for risk in the eurozone’s...
View ArticleWitness intimidations claims in wealth High Court battle
Ex-Signia Wealth chief Nathalie Dauriac-Stoebe has been accused by Phones4U founder John Caudwell of attempting to intimidate potential witnesses in a legal battle over her departure from the...
View ArticleDollar gains vulnerable as Trump trade questioned
The dollar found renewed support among currency traders on Monday despite lingering doubts about its ability to mount a sustained push higher in a climate of US economic and political uncertainty....
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Chinese households predict weaker renminbi in 2017
February 6, 2017 by: FT Confidential Research Chinese households expect the renminbi to end this year at 7.35 against the US dollar, according to an FT Confidential Research survey, implying another...
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Sellside research would be little missed
Sellside analysts may be a dying breed. The Financial Times reported last week that the number of investment bank analysts providing economic forecasts, and stock and bond recommendations, has fallen...
View ArticleBP bucks rising FTSE as profits slump to 10-year low
BP (BP) has fallen to the bottom of the FTSE 100 after the oil major reported its lowest profits in almost a decade and said it needed the oil price to hit $60 a barrel in order to balance its books....
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Trump’s Mexican stand-off unnerves US farmers
US farmers export billions of dollars of maize to its birthplace. The sales to Mexico range from yellow corn headed for chicken farms to batches of popcorn for cinemas. Corn is the biggest of the US’s...
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