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Hedge funds show more appetite for risk – Financial News
from Global Investing:
Equities — an ‘even years’ curse?
Are global equity markets under an 'Even Years Curse' that sees them underperform bonds in even-numbered years but beat fixed-income returns in odd-numbered ones? After some number-crunching, Fidelity International's' director of asset allocation Trevor Greetham suspects so.
"It's not just hocus-pocus but to do with global inventory levels," he explained at a forum organised by the London-based investment house.
Good news for fundies, bad news for nephews
The National Association of Pension Funds isn’t quite as rambunctious as in the days of fat-cat bashing by Christine Farnish, but it still offers up intriguing glimpses into the lives and loves of the nation’s worker drones and retirees.
The latest survey (of 1,248 British full and part-time employees – for the record) makes very clear the priorities as people prepare for retirement, with full pockets winning a convincing victory over full hearts.
