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Russia is becoming a very attractive destination for Chinese investors primarily due to its natural resources and the capacity of the domestic market. However, there is a significant disconnect between the attractiveness of the Russian market and hands-on knowledge of it: 91% of major Chinese businesses find the Russian market attractive, but less than a quarter of them know enough about it, and what's worse, none believe they have good understanding of Russian legislation.

According to a Norwegian linguist, the Sami people living in northern Russia and Scandinavia have 180 words for snow and ice. It seems that there are nearly as many terms for investment strategies designed specifically for societal impact. A few of the terms being used today include: “socially responsible investing,” “ESG investing,” and “mission‐related investing,” etc. Unlike the Sami’s 180 terms, each of which has a very specific meaning, there are no widely accepted definitions for impact investing and no dictionary to guide us.

In this market forecast, Atlantic Trust discusses presents the issues that will have the most impact on the financial markets over the next 12 months, including: The EconomyU.S.

Altantic Trust Private Wealth Management provides insight into the financial markets in its Economic and Investment Overview for the second quarter of 2014, some highlights include:

This paper discusses the current global market conditions and provides insight into the best approach to navigating the current volatile market, while identifying the latest market movers and shakers, and assessing the next move for investors in the equities, currencies, fixed income and oil markets.

This thoughtful paper provides a historical perspective of the Hedge Fund markets performance in varying economic clients and relates what has been learned in the past to the current market conditions since the Recession of 2008.

Following a six-year U.S. economic recovery driven primarily by low interest rates and quantitative easing, the Federal Reserve is now constructing a plan to raise rates. At the heart of its reasoning is the concern that such low interest rates have the potential to distort economic and market conditions, fostering an unstable environment. The latest market insights analyzes the outcome if the Fed decides to raise rates at a higher level in order to stimulate the economy.

The efficient markets hypothesis says that financial markets incorporate all available information in real time to price securities competitively, eliminating opportunities to earn excess return. The Nobel Committee split its 2013 prize for Economic Sciences between proponents of both sides of the market efficiency debate. For investment practitioners, the real question is whether there are skilled investment managers who can capture risk-adjusted excess return (alpha) net-of-fees, and how to identify them.

This article takes a look at the current market conditions and how a strong U.S. dollar has weakend the supply and demand surplus of oil.Some takeaways include: Oil prices could remain depressed for a prolonged period, as some petro states have the ability to weather low prices. Should energy woes continue to spill over into stock and bond markets, buying opportunities may emerge for investors.

2014 began much the same way as investors fervently hid from interest rate volatility. The previous year’s significant rate decline surprised nearly every market participant and commentator. However, during 2014, 30-year Treasury bond yields fell 1.22 percent and provided a total return of more than 29 percent. As interest rates slid to near historic lows, investors became increasingly comfortable with the low-rate environment.