All articles by Financial view John Plender
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InsightAfter historic woes on stock markets, institutional investors play long game in property
Two of the longest-standing mantras in the investment world are that stocks are for the long run and that property is a long-term investment.
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InsightTough luck: property will pay price for bank regulation
There is no escaping the fact that credit conditions in the commercial property market remain bleak.
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Insight‘Anglosphere’ will struggle to repeat last year's performance
From a capital market perspective 2011 could best be described as the triumph of the “Anglosphere”. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index returned 2.1%, outstripping the markets of all the other large economies. UK equities were down 2.6%, which compares more than favourably with declines of 16.5% for Germany, 15% ...
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InsightPension funds can find missing link to index linking in property
The shift in pension fund asset allocation towards liability matching has gathered serious momentum
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InsightGold still sets standard while markets are uncertain
When inflation becomes a serious threat, investors traditionally look to “real” assets to provide a hedge
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InsightInflation is back — let us hope Bank of England does not panic
Inflation is back with a vengeance, driven by the surge in energy and commodity prices
