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UK fund buyers pin hopes on Japan to ride the Covid recovery wave
50% of UK fund buyers said they plan on upping their exposure Japanese equities and none were looking to sell out
Interest in Japanese equities has surged in Q1 as UK fund buyers scour for value plays to ride the Covid recovery wave, according to a survey conducted by Last Word Research.
Half of UK fund buyers said they plan on topping up their Japanese equities exposure when polled during the first quarter, a massive spike from Q3 and Q4 2020 when only 9.1% and 19.4% expressed plans to boost their weightings.
The looming spectre of inflation: Portfolio Adviser February issue
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UK CPI rose 0.7% over the year to January, up slightly from December’s 0.6% figure, showing further tentative signs of inflation creeping upwards.
Pretty much everyone agrees that while broadly stable for now, inflation will rise over the medium term. Vast amounts of monetary and fiscal stimulus to tackle the Covid pandemic fallout, coupled with pent-up consumer demand due to lockdowns, seems to make this inevitable.
Iboss investment director Chris Metcalfe recently announced changes to the firm’s fixed-income holdings and cash position to prepare for what he describes as “the most inflationary environment we’ve had for years”.
Gamestop trading frenzy fuels fears of next equity bubble
Ruffer warns of ‘over-exuberant’ markets but other investors think stocks have further to climb
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The flood of retail investors piling into markets like the Redditors behind the Gamestop mania has been described as a “harbinger of over-exuberant markets” and evidence of potential equity bubbles brewing.
Down on its luck video game retailer Gamestop took the investment industry by storm at the end of January after an army of amateur traders on Reddit targeted the stock, with the intent of sending its shares “to the moon” and letting Wall Street have it. What followed was a frenetic week of trading which saw other beaten up and shorted stocks US cinema chain AMC and out of fashion mobile phone company Blackberry take off.
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