The growth of DFM-style management is a triumph for the idea investment solutions should focus on client needs.

Aspirational consumers with an insatiable appetite for luxury Western brands are growing in numbers throughout emerging markets, where favourable demographics have created a generation of young workers with spending power.

Jenna Barnard, Henderson Global Investors' bond fund manager, has warned soaring Spanish yields have left the country's sovereign bond market at breaking point.

ON BONDS

Three brave finance professionals are preparing to undertake a gruelling walk to the North Pole, with the aim of raising £1m for worthy causes.

ON THE US

James Saunders Watson, head of marketing, investment trusts at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, explains how zero dividend preference shares offer capital growth and predictability of return without liability to income tax.

ON UK INCOME

Marina Akopian, fund manager at HEXAM Capital Partners, outlines the drivers that could aid a turnaround in fortunes for emerging markets.

FUND SELECTION