This is Part 3 in our coverage of Canadian Investment Review’s 2011 Investment Innovation Conference, held at the Fairmont Southampton in Bermuda. Read Part 1: Whither the equity risk premium Read Part 2: Infrastructure investing: A group thing One asset class that may be a source of strong investment returns in the future is real […]
North America’s chief financial officers were feeling more optimistic in the first quarter, marking a rebound from six months of declining sentiment, according to the latest CFO Signals survey from Deloitte.
Investor confidence was up in March, with North America driving the lead, according to the latest State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI).
As the U.S. economy continues to improve, investors seem to have lost their appetite for gold. Seen as a traditional safe haven, gold prices surged over the past decade, rising from just $253 in 2001 to nearly $2,000 in 2011.
The growing weight of positive data continues to whet the global risk appetite. As eurozone credit crisis fears eased in February, capital markets across the world rallied, according to a market commentary released today by BMO Harris Private Banking.
It might sound like a bit of an understatement, but the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has announced that the government of Greece has experienced “a credit event”.
As the markets become more convinced that China will manage an economic soft-landing, fund managers have turned positive on resurgent China equities.
The relevance of the original G7 is fading fast. Not only is China now the world’s second largest economy, but Brazil has reached sixth place in the world.
Experts are calling the recent tumbling of commodity prices and resource-related equities an overreaction to China’s lowered growth forecast.
Investors tiring of equity volatility can take heart; the markets will stabilize in the second half of this year, marking the beginning of a “modest” recovery, according to a white paper released by Credit Suisse.