AIC/IFA Promotion predictions for 2007

For example, while fund managers generally see big-cap stocks outperforming, more IFAs favour small-caps, and while equities are seen as doing better than property or bonds, IFAs are not so sure. IFAs have picked emerging markets as the best performing sector next year, compared with Japan, picked by the fund managers. Both, however, have pointed to strong corporate profitability, ongoing mergers and acquisition activity, and monetary control of inflationary pressures as factors pointing to an overall good year ahead. Close to eight in 10 of all the IFAs and fund mangers questioned though...