James McManus

After a torrid year for government bonds in 2022, there’s been more positive signs from the asset class so far this year. We explain what’s changed, and why the Nutmeg investment team is no longer underweight the asset class versus our risk benchmarks.  

Concerns around the so-called ‘three R words’ – the conflict in Russia, the threat of Recession, and the impact of rising interest Rates – is unsettling for many people. But how should investors react? 

In the second of our series looking at the medium-term structural shifts that global investment assets will be exposed to, we focus on climate and natural resource disruption, and the risks and opportunities these can create for the global economy and investors in the decades ahead.

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds have similar structures, are widely available to investors and each offer exposure to a range of different assets. They are even regulated in much the same way. So, why do we prefer ETFs at Nutmeg?

You may have recently come across the term gating, which is the practice of temporarily blocking withdrawals from an investment fund – imagine putting up a gate to stop money coming out. In this blog we explain why fund managers and their corporate directors are sometimes forced to take this step, and whether it could ever happen in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market that Nutmeg invests in.

If you follow stock markets closely you may have heard the term buybacks before. Here we explain what it means, who’s involved and what impact it can have on stock markets.