With interest on cash so high and markets looking volatile, some investors may be tempted to put their spare money in a standard savings account. However, doing so could come with a severe long-term opportunity cost.
Artemis’ fixed income team share their three key messages for 2024.
Raheel Altaf, manager of the Artemis SmartGARP Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund, explains why he is overweight China despite the well-publicised risks, but underweight more ‘fashionable’ regions such as India and Taiwan.
Through share buybacks, some of the best companies in the UK market are delivering compound growth in their earnings per share – and so rewarding their patient shareholders.
Mark Niznik and William Tamworth talk about some of the reasons for the Artemis UK Smaller Companies Fund’s top-quartile returns this year, including takeover bids and the surprising resilience of the UK consumer.
At the start of the year, many analysts predicted a recovery in China could support the global economy. While the recovery has failed to materialise, Raheel Altaf, manager of the Artemis SmartGARP Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund, believes it may only be the timing of the prediction that was wrong.
Alex Stanić, lead manager of the Artemis Global Select Fund, says that to call all banks cyclical is a generalisation: in selective emerging markets with low penetration of financial products, there is a clear long-term opportunity.
Getting to net zero will demand trillions of dollars of private-sector capital. But financial returns and positive environmental impacts need to be complemented by outcomes that support the needs of society, give communities affected by the energy transition a voice – and a share in the profits. The drive to net zero should not come at any cost.
Investors often assume that ‘special situations’ refers to companies in turmoil that represent high risk, but this is not so. The Artemis UK Special Situations team explain how using the 3 R’s – rehabilitation, recovery and revitalisation – can highlight why their capacity to improve makes these companies ‘special’.
Andy Marsh and Jacob de Tusch-Lec say that whether income investors are analysing UK or global businesses, they should focus on a company’s cashflow rather than how much it is yielding.
Despite being a bond manager, Artemis’ Head of Fixed Income Stephen Snowden has always preferred to buy equity funds for his personal portfolio. But with good-quality short-duration bonds generating more than 6% a year, he says it makes sense to lock these yields in.
Andy Marsh and Nick Shenton, co-managers of the Artemis Income Fund, will discuss the investment process that has generated long-term returns, current investment ideas in the portfolio, and explain how the fund offers access to the global profits of UK plc at currently depressed valuations.
Manager of the Artemis High Income Fund, Jack Holmes, explains why it’s likely to be difficult to bring inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target. As such it is our view that in an environment wherein inflation remains persistent, the risk/reward trade-off in shorter-dated high-yield bonds is more compelling than government bonds.
After a disappointing start to the year for emerging markets, valuation multiples have fallen to multi-decade lows relative to their counterparts in the US.Raheel Altaf asks whether that discount can last – and examines the factors that might trigger change.
In the second article of this 2-part series, the Artemis equity income team explore why UK equities deserve much greater consideration amid a new investment and economic landscape taking shape.
Should you invest in a dream or a reality? In the first of a two-part series, the Artemis UK equity income team explain why negative perceptions of the UK should give way to a focus on the strength of the underlying fundamentals.
Craig Bonthron, Fund Manager of the Artemis Positive Future Fund, says Elon Musk may prove to have a greater impact on tackling global warming than any other CEO. He also claims Tesla has the edge over its competitors at every stage of the manufacturing process. So why is he selling out of the company?
Register to hear from Artemis’ high income team – David Ennett, Jack Holmes and Ed Legget – as they detail how they are exploiting favourable market conditions and adding value through actively allocating across the bond and equity spectrum, while carefully managing overall risk in the portfolio.
We cannot be sure what the next decade holds, but history suggests this period of high inflation and interest rates is unlikely to be the same as the last. You may need to adjust.
We cannot be sure what the next decade holds, but history suggests this period of high inflation and interest rates is unlikely to be the same as the last. You may need to adjust.