There’s been much collective gnashing of teeth over the last few months at the evolution of peer to peer lending, as practised by Zopa, Ratesetter and most latterly Funding Circle. The big bone of contention has been a shift amongst… Continue reading →
I’ve been arguing for most of the last 12 months that the Eurozone is the place to ‘be’ in asset allocation terms – along with emerging markets. All the breathless predictions about the end of the EU and a populist… Continue reading →
I note with interest the second profits warning today from Provident Financial. It seems like an almighty mess with a corporate restructuring in its core business of door step credit tripping the business into disaster. I don’t know the business… Continue reading →
I was rather hoping that we’d see a pause for breath on the new issue front in August but yesterday brought news that there’s yet another big box REIT heading our way. It’s called the Warehouse REIT (which will sit… Continue reading →
The ETF versus Active debate refuses to go away and die. Over the last few weeks, this debate has even resurfaced in the mainstream media with Gillian Tett of the FT – amongst many others – worrying that the humble… Continue reading →
One increasingly worried line of investment thinking is that demand for global equities is being fed in part by strong demand for corporate bonds. As central banks vie with ETFs and sovereign wealth funds to snap up the most liquid… Continue reading →
Everybody and their dog certainly seem to be worrying about consumer debt – and the parallel, low, savings rate. The regulators are clearly concerned about increasing levels of unsecured consumer debt – and have asked lenders to tighten up. Latest… Continue reading →
It goes without saying that ETFs are increasingly big business, even in slow-coach Europe. The region is currently the second largest ETF market in the world, behind the United States, with just under $700bn of assets under management. Europe is… Continue reading →
Today’s FT reports that crude prices have hit 11-week highs as Opec raises “ global oil demand forecasts for this year and next while lowering estimates for production outside of the cartel, even as the group’s own output rose for… Continue reading →
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