Tag: Diversification
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INVESTMENTS! – Active versus Passive or Active and Passive.
Some Advisers have debated long and hard whether Active or Passive Investing is better in the long term. In more recent years, the passive advocates’ voices have been heard loud and clear but this of course misses the point that there remains a number of hugely talented fund managers who have managed to beat the…
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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…