Manager highlights essential differences between US and UK and Europe as RMBS-based Monument Bond launches at UK retail space

Despite frequent waves of negative news, there are several bullish trends emerging for the US economy and its stock market.

Since March this year the Asia Pacific markets have rallied strongly, as investors anticipated that loose monetary policy and government stimulus packages would be enough to trigger a recovery.

The overall economic picture, from the combined newsflow at macro and individual company level, is one of uneasy stability.

Having recorded further heavy losses in early 2009 to reach a low point in March, share prices have rebounded strongly in recent months.

The growth in multi-asset portfolios shows no sign of slowing down as Investment Week reported last week with three more products coming to the market hot of the heels of the success, in asset-raising terms, of William Littlewood's Artemis fund or J.P....

Diverse sector at the forefront of downturn over past year, with just eight funds producing positive returns to investors

Janus US High-Yield heads say research is key to the fund's management strategy

"Sterling has strengthened overnight, Dad," my 10-year-old son told me randomly as he watched the breakfast news while we were on holiday, and then promptly told me what the sterling/dollar exchange rate was.

Following the recent failures of the banking system, the Walker Review rightly recommends greater transparency and engagement