Category: Multi Manager
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Industry Voice: I’ll think about my pension next year
“I’ll think about my pension next year”. It isn’t unusual for clients to make this statement. Often they think they can leave it until they have more money, have paid off the mortgage, built up the business and so on. That strategy used to work. However, the reduction in Annual Allowance (AA), removal of year…
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Stock Prices Slide as Market Volatility Returns
One of our favoured Investment houses, SEI, has commented on the current position of the Stock Market’s volatility. The extended period of calm for equity markets in recent years has come to a halt, pulling global markets lower. While declines can be disconcerting, they are a normal development in the course of market movements. The…
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The disappearance of the Cofunds brand name
Aegon is dropping the Cofunds brand name as it moves users onto an upgraded version of the platform. After acquiring Cofunds in August last year, Aegon has been working on integrating the platform with its Aegon Retirement Choices offering, bringing many of Cofunds’ features into ARC. The decision to dispense with the Cofunds branding puts…
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Brexit and Diversification
Since the UK electorate’s decision to leave the European Union (EU), the past 17 or so months have been interesting ones, to say the very least, for UK equity investors, and none more so than for those of us focused lower down the market capitalisation scale. But the UK market is a diverse and internationalised…