At Investment Week's recent Global Emerging Markets Focus, we caught up with four emerging market managers to hear about opportunities and potential concerns for investors in these countries.

The IMA expects to announce the results of its Absolute Return sector review by the end of February.

The £1.2bn Witan investment trust has appointed UK-based hedge fund specialist Lansdowne Partners to manage a global equity portfolio.

Senior MPs want to call Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the FSA, before the banking standards commission to explain how he will overhaul Barclays' troubled culture.

A convincing election win by Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) boosted Japanese equities and caused the yen to weaken.

Brewin Dolphin's discretionary funds rose 16.7% to £18.2bn at 30 September 2012, up from £15.6bn the year before.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has sounded a warning over the very real possibility of the US government failing to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff.

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State-owned lender Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)has predicted it could take ten years to fully return to the private sector, according to reports.

A radical shift in the way we source, transform and consume energy is underway.