Blue sky thinking about the ideas destined to become big money spinners is among the most creative - and exciting - aspects of investing.
Predicting what the world will look like in coming decades is notoriously hard though, and even financial professionals often get unstuck when forecasting trends and finding the companies most likely to exploit them successfully.
So, you need to keep your prophesy-making tendencies in proportion, and only allocate small portions of your Isa portfolio to niche themes.
But if you do want to take the risk and do that, what might the future look like? We asked financial experts what sensible investors should consider before they put money into thematic funds, before doing some of their own crystal ball-gazing on what will make a fortune in the future.
The remaining half of the new sectors include USD Mixed Bond, EUR Mixed Bond, Global Mixed Bond, USD High Yield Bond, EUR High Yield Bond, Global High Yield Bond and a Specialist Bond sector, which is any bond fund that invests at least 80% in bond securities, but does not qualify for any of the other 13 sectors. The new sectors more concisely and accurately separate funds according to their investment strategies. From a fund selectors point of view, this is a positive step forward. The new sectors provide a more useful starting point for uncovering the best funds available in specific areas of fixed income markets, John McTaggart, fund analyst at FE Investments told
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Employers that push staff into making unsuitable defined benefit transfers should beware the “FCA’s gaze”, a director at the regulator warns.
Speaking at a webinar hosted by consultants Lane Clark and Peacock, FCA director of markets and wholesale policy Edwin Schooling Latter gave an update on how the watchdog views transfers.
In his remarks he touched on recently published guidance about the responsibilities facing employers and trustees.
The joint guidance from the Pensions Regulator and FCA was published in March 2021 with a focus on what trustees can do to help members without straying into advice or arranging investments.
Benchmark Strategies Forum, April 13, 2021, Opening Remarks, Scott OâMalia, ISDA Chief Executive Date
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the Benchmarks Strategies Forum. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank CME Group for supporting this event once again. I know CME is as passionate as we are about raising awareness on benchmark reform, so we’re delighted to be able to work together again on this event.
It’s more than a year since our first Benchmark Strategies Forum in London and New York, but a huge amount of progress has been made over that time. Most importantly, we now have clarity following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) March 5 announcement, which effectively heralded the death of LIBOR. We know for sure which LIBOR settings will end on which date, and which tenors will become non-representative.
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