Do TV and Film Investments Make Money?

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Trends in television The introduction of video-on-demand (VOD) services including Amazon and Netflix has revolutionised the way we watch TV. They are each gaining millions of new subscribers each year and produce ever more of their own award-winning…

87% of active UK equity funds underperformed in 2016

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The private equity party is overcrowded

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An overheated market intoxicated by cheap credit serves as a warning to investors There are few surer financial warnings than Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of the private equity group Blackstone, throwing a big party. His 60th celebration…

Private Equity Returns Still Outperform Public Markets

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Private equity buyout funds globally delivered returns that beat public equity markets by a sizable margin in 2016. In the U.S., funds delivered a 6% end-to-end pooled internal rate of return (IRR) for the 12 months ending June 2016, compared…

Chinese companies post triple-digit growth in UK

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Chinese-owned companies have recorded triple-digit growth in the past two years in United Kingdom, the Financial Times reported, citing research by Grant Thornton, a UK-based professional services firm. Revenues of the top 30 companies, which…

The great equity market rotation

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With significant political decisions undertaken during 2016 on both sides of the Atlantic, 2017 now becomes a year of execution, writes Ben Russon, portfolio manager of the Franklin UK Opportunities fund. For investors in the UK equity…

How Global Stock Markets Have Changed in 117 Years

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At the end of 1899, both Queen Victoria and Czar Nicholas II still sat on their respective thrones, William McKinley was the 25th American President, and Germany had not even been unified for 30 years. Notably, all these countries had some…

What goes up must go down: so are the global equity markets heading for a fall?

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Last week, global equities hit another all-time high. The MSCI World Index rose to a record level, the value of all the companies in the S&P 500 crossed the $20 trillion mark for the first time ever and the FTSE 100 closed above 7,300. With…

Identifying investment opportunities in equity markets

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In tough, volatile economic times, why do equity markets offer an attractive option for investors? For the past five years the global macroeconomic environment has been characterised by low economic growth, low inflation and low interest rates.…

Global Stock Markets: The Financial Comeback Kid

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With all eyes on the U.S. stock market and the return of the "Trump trade," few investors are focused on global equity markets. It is easy to see why. Global stock markets have disappointed investors so much, for so long, that most simply…

US investment giant sets sights on Latin American market

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US asset management group Dodge & Cox is looking to extend its international reach and has put Latin America firmly in its sights. The San Francisco firm, which manages over $280 billion, of which $190 billion is concentrated in just…