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IFAs recommend investing in UK Shares to clients

More than four out of five IFAs will recommend investing in UK Shares to clients over the next three months as confidence in the long-term prospects of the UK economy grows despite recent volatility, Virgin Money’s Investor Intentions Index shows. The numbers of advisers recommending UK Shares has grown to 83% in the past three months from 74%, putting the UK market clearly ahead of Emerging Markets and the Far East as the best homes for clien... [more]

Commodities market to see sustainable global demand rise

Kuala Lumpur: A sustainable global demand growth has been projected for the commodities markets due to industrialisation and urbanisation of developing and emerging markets, says a fund portfolio manager.

CIC Reports 11.7% Global Return for 2009 on Commodities Bets

China’s sovereign wealth fund posted an 11.7 percent return on its overseas portfolio in 2009, reversing a loss a year earlier, as it raised bets on commodities to benefit from a rebound in global markets.

Commodities Market To See Sustainable Global Demand Growth

KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 (Bernama) -- A sustainable global demand growth has been projected for the commodities markets due to industrialisation and urbanisation of developing and emerging markets, says a fund portfolio manager.

INTERVIEW-Black-box funds perform as bubbles burst -Mulvaney

20. Sustainable global demand growth likely for commodities

KUALA LUMPUR: A sustainable global demand growth has been projected for the commodities markets due to industrialisation and urbanisation of developing and emerging markets.

Volatility Trade Buffett Embraced Backfiring for Hedge Experts

A bullish stock market trade embraced by the smartest money is backfiring. And that has investors wondering if what Warren Buffett and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. know about derivatives is obsolete.

Is agriculture the next big investment thing?

As the world's population expands, China switches from rice to meat, and biofuel growth looks set to rocket, City experts think agriculture is the best place to make money in the next decade Hedge funds, with billions of pounds in assets, are recklessly gambling on food prices, with speculators driving massive price volatility that threatens the most vulnerable people on the planet. That's the ...

Black-box funds perform as bubbles burst -Mulvaney

Black-box funds based on mathematical models give investors a means of reducing risk and can perform strongly even when asset bubbles burst the chief executive of one such fund told Reuters on Thursday.

AltaGas Reports Second Quarter Results

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 29, 2010) - AltaGas Ltd. (AltaGas) (TSX:ALA) today reported net income for the three months ended June 30, 2010 of $28.4 million or $0.35 per unit. Funds from operations for the three months ended June 30, 2010 were $44.3 million or $0.54 per unit. Today AltaGas also declared the August monthly dividend of $0.11 per share. "

On Investing: The state of state pension plans

This is turning out to be a make or break year in public pension policy as states move to lower skyrocketing pension plan costs that can threaten their stability.