Clare Flynn Levy, CEO and founder of Essentia Analytics, argues understanding how behavioural bias negatively impacts investment decisions enables fund managers to identify their behaviours and refine their investment processes.
With volatility having increased this year, Newton Investment Management's Nick Clay asks what type and level of risk is one willing to assume to generate the required level of income?
Relative value strategies useful
The retail industry appears to find endless fascination from monitoring inflows and outflows from particular funds and asset management houses.
Fund reaches three-year track record
Fitch Ratings has said bond managers' efforts to improve the liquidity profile of their funds are still insufficient to meet redemptions if investors begin rushing for the exit.
Mark Roomans, the head of Morningstar UK, has highlighted launching new 'strategic beta' indices and growing its discretionary fund management (DFM) business as key priorities for the group.
The growing influx of overseas investors into the London stockmarket is providing opportunities for UK multi-cap managers to find overlooked 'valuation anomalies' further down the market-cap spectrum.