The quality of the financial information you access can significantly affect your investment decisions. We have a team dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with research ranging from quarterly, long-term outlook forecasts to detailed market updates each week. Our insightful analysis is designed to give you an advantage when deciding priorities for your investment portfolio.
The Barclays Wealth research team includes four groups of specialists focussing on macroeconomics, equity, fixed income and asset allocation. We keep you informed about global macroeconomic analysis and forecasts; government bonds and corporate credit; top-down economic strategy; bottom-up stock picking and sector analysis; foreign exchange research and forecasts; property, commodities and hedge funds.
We publish research annually, quarterly, monthly and weekly as part of our Signpost suite of publications. Our Quarterly Investment Review gives you ‘big picture’ insight into the state of the markets, from top-level strategic views to bottom-up stock picks. Our Monthly Update covers the past month in the markets, individual sectors, topics in the spotlight, and the performance of our model portfolios. And every week, we analyse the latest market developments, breaking news and the outlook for the week ahead. Please see below our most recent reports.
Barclays Wealth, 12 June 2008
A month ago, we looked for the recovery in riskier asset classes to start ‘gathering steam’. All went well for three weeks or so. But then higher oil prices cast a shadow over markets. This month, we ask ourselves if we need to change our asset allocation recommendations accordingly.
Barclays Wealth, 19 May 2008
Past market rallies have quickly run out of puff. But markets appear to view recent developments as, if not yet the end-game, at least a sea-change in the credit crisis. We share their cautious optimism and argue in this May issue of Signpost that the recovery from the credit crunch is now gathering steam.
Barclays Wealth, 17 April 2008
Despite the markets' recent troubles, we reckon that rather less bad news on US housing in future, coupled with continued policy intervention from the US authorities, should lead to a shift in mood and subsequent economic recovery. So, shimmering through the current gloom, there may now be light at the end of the tunnel.
Michael Dicks, 14 December 2007
2007 was an exceptionally difficult year for the world's financial markets. Equities remain on a rollercoaster ride, and the global credit crisis is still unresolved. Yet the continued market convulsions make it even more important to take a considered view of how the investor should respond. We look forward to a rather better, if still bumpy, 2008.
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