Forests do many things for us all - they scrub carbon from the air, provide a flexible building material and mitigate flood risk, according to Gresham House's Richard Davidson.

Passive fees under pressure

Emerging markets have faced a perfect storm recently, writes JPMAM's Emily Whiting.

A number of commentators correctly highlighted at the start of the year that dividends were at risk in the resources area of the UK equity market, writes Stephen Message, manager of the Old Mutual UK Equity Income fund.

It is easy to get caught up in a campaign season, whether in the US, where the race for the White House is well underway, or in the UK, where the Brexit campaign is in full swing.

Following the crescendo of the European sovereign debt crisis in 2011, scepticism plagued investors across the continent, leaving the economy in a fragile, lethargic state.

For much of 2015, and the early part of 2016, I only had to check the direction of the oil price and the Shanghai Composite to work out how good - or bad - the day ahead would be.

'Disappointing' seems to be the most common epithet attached to the word 'growth'. This is as true for the US as it is many other developed and developing economies.

Next month, the European Central Bank (ECB) will begin buying European investment grade corporate bonds as part of its quantitative easing economic stimulus programme, writes Charles Schwab director Collin Martin.

Liontrust AM's John Husselbee analyses which global markets are offering the best value as the first half of a volatile 2016 comes to a close.