Debt/Credit
- Barclays Wealth London offers investment leverage, overseas mortgages, aircraft and marine finance, and art finance in this area
- Merrill Lynch are looking for a fund in the area of distressed debt
Emerging Markets
- Bank of Ireland Private Bank allocates to emerging markets
equities within its core equity funds, including equity raising for a Asia private equity real estate fund over recent months
- Davy Private Clients offers discretionary, advisory and execution services on overseas equities
- Merrion Capital offers quoted
equity opportunities and in-house equity research
- Investec offers portfolio investment in overseas equities
- Key Capital Private offers clients a positive position on Asia and other emerging markets with an emphasis on infrastructure and local currencies.
- Gary Dugan, Managing Director of Global Wealth Management at Merrill is advising on Japanese equities as the best exposure in Asian emerging markets. Through investing in companies that do business in emerging markets.
- Helvetia are advising equity plays in emerging markets recommending Malaysia with a strong domestic market and little export exposure to the US.
Managed futures
- Bank of Ireland Private Banking
has an allocation to a managed futures programme within its multi-manager product.
Commodities
- Peter Howe, head of trading at Helvetia, says that the firm sees value in commodities. Helvetia’s Gold Booster Fund has performed particularly well and they see the whole commodities sector as providing value in 2008, in the areas of silver, palladium and platinum.
- Key Capital Private offers commodity opportunities for clients and expects the sector to continue to offer strong growth potential
- Merrion Capital offers a number of different commodity trading opportunities for investors, including, coffee, corn, grains, agriculture, cotton and wheat among others
- Barclays wealth London offers investors commodity opportunities
in precious, hard and soft commodities via ishares, funds and structured products
- Citigroup Quilter offers clients a number of commodity opportunities
- Investec offers a number of opportunities in commodities and gold
- Davy Private Clients offers discretionary and advisory services only on commodities.
Alternative Energy
With the Kyoto Agreement impacting on the renewable energy projects in a number of countries, many wealth managers see this growing area as one that provides value to investors. Helevtia Wealth offers Irish investors an opportunity in a number of renewable energy areas, including wind, marine, hydro power and solar energies.
KBC Asset Management offer investors a range of environmentally friendly products. |
