Investors start to liquidate funds August 13th, 2008
Schroders Fund Management profits fell by 27% as investors withdrew £700m worth of assets during the second quarter of 2008. Investors are unwilling to commit funds to the markets as economic uncertainties remain. A situation that is likely to remain until at least early 2009.
Whilst investing in the current markets isn’t for the feint-hearted surely the fact that markets have fallen so much since the start of the year and companies are now trading on historically low price/earnings ratios, makes the coming months a good time to start investing in stocks.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I believe investors will start to take a more hands on approach. Long only mutual funds, in this market, are a joke. We have seen the Dow, for example, make swings of 700 points three or four times in the last few months, if you had your investment with manager who could trade short and trade the indices there would have been huge potential in these market moves….