Ashmore Investment Management, an emerging markets specialist, has launched a SICAV fund investing in Turkish equities.

Kames Capital has reshuffled its high yield investment team, after hiring Stephen Baines from Oriel Asset Management as fixed income manager.

Multi-asset managers have revealed their strategies as tensions mount in Syria and policy issues resurface in the US.

Exposure to financials has been the key performance driver for Kevin Doran's IFDS Brown Shipley Sterling Bond fund, which has gained the top spot in the IMA £ Corporate Bond sector this year.

Fears over US monetary tightening, rate hikes, and recession triggered the 1987 stock market crash, and there are parallels with today's market environment, said Société Générale's Albert Edwards.

PIMCO, the world's largest bond house, lost its position as the best-selling fund group in Europe in the first half of the year.

Sheldon MacDonald, senior investment manager at Architas, favours real estate investment trusts (REITs) for property exposure and has named the four trusts he is backing in his portfolios.

The Indian rupee has plummeted to a record low as the soaring oil price and internal economic problems continue to derail growth.

Gold has climbed above the $1,400 mark for the first time since June, re-entering a bull market as disappointing US data and worries over Syria push investors into safe havens.

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