Julius Baer

Concerns about a sovereign credit crisis in peripheral Europe drove equity markets significantly lower in the past few weeks, although corporate earnings results overall showed a solid improvement.

Optimism is returning to global economy say managers

Emerging markets represent 30% of global GDP, yet only 14.3% of the MSCI [World] index.

The absolute return sector has proved popular with investors yet confusion remains over the scope, target returns and investment time horizon of absolute return strategies

Interesting investment opportunities exist across the three main natural resources areas: energy, metals and agriculture. In recent months the energy, metals and mining sectors have been particularly strong performers, with companies such as South African...

Global market gains over the last two months are bordering on the euphoric, says Julius Baer's Matthias Ramser, who is maintaining a neutral weighting to equities and commodities across the firm's portfolios.

Markets are rebounding strongly after the indiscriminate drop of last year.

Julius Baer has rolled out a Japan fund with a split quantitative and qualitative asset allocation model to the UK retail space.

The flow of multi-asset launches to the retail market looks set to continue in coming months, with Swip, Franklin Templeton and Julius Baer outlining plans for new strategies.

Emerging market currencies have rallied strongly after a rough opening to the year. Globalisation, the structural driver for the asset class, continues.