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A unique opportunity for improved fixed income yields - Prescient's China Conservative Fund

17 October 2014 | General

Quantitative easing around the world has driven global bond yields to all-time lows while credit spreads have narrowed dramatically. Such is the extent of QE that overnight European bank deposits attract a negative yield, effectively costing the investor money.

How to find a ‘ten bagger’ share

15 October 2014 | General

A ‘ten bagger’ is colloquial for a share price that rises a thousand percent or, in other words, makes you ten times your money. In some ways the Holy Grail of investments, the key consideration is how do you go about finding a ten bagger?

Global growth downgraded

13 October 2014 | General

Once again, global growth is disappointing. For the fourth year in a row, the optimism felt at the start of the year has proven to be misplaced. The title of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) January report was a hopeful “Is the tide rising?” The title for the latest October report is more circumspect, “Legacies, clouds and uncertainties”. The IMF’s updated forecasts are for global growth to average 3.3% in 2014, rising to 3.8% in 2015. This is slightly lower than the IMF’s forecasts in July and 0.4% lower than the January forecast. The only major economy to see its growth forecasts upgraded significantly was the US. The world’s largest economy is expected to grow by 2.2% this year and 3.1% next year. The forecast for the Eurozone and Japan has been cut for both 2014 and 2015 to around 1% per year. The IMF attaches a 40% probability to a triple-dip recession in the Eurozone, a concern amplified by the release of weak German industrial production numbers for August on Monday. China’s growth outlook remains the same at 7.4%.

The power of unemotional investing

13 October 2014 | General

The demise of African Bank (Abil) has raised questions about the extent to which fund managers are guilty of poor judgment, and how well they really know their investments based on research undertaken with prudence and care.

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