Industry Voice
Industry Voice: Investing in volatile times
A more volatile investment environment can prompt a sharper focus on diversification as a way to manage risk and renewed interest in different approaches to multi-asset investing and fund choices.
Industry Voice: The EM framing fallacy: Emerging market debt and the trials of a misunderstood asset class
How we frame things deeply affects how we process information and subsequently act on it. So much so that, despite convincing evidence to the contrary, it can be extremely hard to shake off a fabled preconception. It seems that once a label sticks it...
Industry Voice: Q&A with Iain McGowan…
Head of Fund Proposition Scottish Widows Investment Strategy & Execution provides an in-depth look at their fund range
How are advisers using alternative assets?
Partner Insight Video: Advisers have had to adapt to the changing investment landscape.
VIDEO: Quilter's support for job sharing
Industry Voice: Sponsored by Quilter
Video: Architas market outlook
Partner Insight: Continuing the Architas education series for clients.
Blackfinch Chief: 'The IHT portfolio services is a 'natural evolution' for us'
Partner Insight: For Blackfinch, the arrival of its IHT portfolio services was a 'natural evolution' in the group's offering and points to an established track record of returning cash to investors.
Entrepreneurial spirit lifts Vala's EIS offering
Partner Insight: Vala Capital's Jasper Smith and Paddy Willis have brought together a unique set of entrepreneurial experiences in order to provide new businesses - and investors - with the support they require to succeed
EIS providers: We are not just managing funds; but building up businesses too
Partner Insight: Strong performance and lower fees have propelled the use of EIS strategies by advisers in recent years, and for advisers, investors and providers alike there has been a "paradigm shift in the sector," according to Jack Rose, head of tax-efficient...
Director or dictator?
Industry Voice: Star CEOs are bringing into question what makes a good leader in a flatter, networked world. We explore what this means for the overall governance of companies
LightTower's Rose: 'The effects of recent rule changes yet to feed through to VCTs'
Partner Insight: The government's emphasis on VCTs has also subtly changed in recent years with the ending of asset-backed investment and as with EIS, the emphasis being very much more focused on growth capital opportunities.
Conscious decoupling: GDP and environmental sustainability
Industry Voice: One of the most serious problems with GDP is that it fails to measure the impact of economic growth on the planet's finite environmental resources. As economist Kenneth Boulding once put it: "Anyone who believes that exponential growth...
Diversification delivers
INDUSTRY VOICE: Royal London's Governed Portfolios have reached their ten-year milestone. Lorna Blyth, Head of Investment Solutions, reflects on how diversification can deliver.
Plastic (not so) fantastic
Industry Voice: The ultra-long lifespan of plastics is proving an ecological challenge. As consumers become alarmed at the environmental contamination caused by synthetic organic polymers, we look at the alternatives and the role of investors in pushing...
Video: Choosing an investment approach
Continuing the Architas education series for clients.
How rising financial inclusion became one of the biggest investment opportunities in emerging markets
Partner Insight: The rising penetration of financial products and services will forge dramatic change in developing regions of the world, driven by technological innovation and strong demographic characteristics. Jupiter's Ross Teverson analyses the best...
Video: Seven tips for first-time investors
Continuing the Architas education series for clients.
Lessons from Turkey and Argentina: Where is the value in EMD now?
Industry Voice: Alejandro Arevalo, Manager of the Jupiter Global Emerging Markets Corporate Bond and Jupiter Global Emerging Markets Short Duration Bond Funds, discusses lessons learnt from recent crises in Turkey and Argentina this year, and how this...
Ethics & alpha: Can investing responsibly enhance returns?
Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer at Aviva Investors, takes an in-depth look at the relationship between responsible investing and performance.
Expertise combined, opportunity multiplied: why I created a real assets business
"The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed" - William Gibson
What are the challenges facing financial advisers in 2019?
Partner Insight: A changing regulatory landscape and market volatility are on the agenda
Paul Armson: How an outburst changed my perspective on money
INDUSTRY VOICE: Vanguard's Adviser Stories are a series exploring adviser-client relationships.
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