I have never quite lost the snooker bug, so this year, happy to assist my son in avoiding GCSE revision, I took up my usual armchair seat for the World Championships.

Hedi Ben Mlouka, CEO of Dubai-based Duet MENA, explores the prospects for Vietnam and Pakistan - two countries which are "very much the architects of their own fortunes".

Ooi Boon Peng, chief investment officer, fixed income at Eastspring Investments, looks at how last month's devaluation of the renminbi is spilling over into other Asian bond markets

Rewind to May 2014 and Indian equity markets were in a state of euphoria following Modi's stunning election victory, built on the promise of a strong reform agenda.

Jason Hsu, co-founder of Research Affiliates, explores how investors can determine the most important performance and risk factors when putting together a portfolio, and ensure they have the most significance

Kirill Pyshkin, fund manager at Mirabaud Asset Management, says the recent underperformance of global high dividend stocks is unusual, so should investors be taking advantage of the buying opportunity?

As another high-profile victim counts the cost of cybercrime, the attack reinforces the widely held view among cyber security professionals that breaches are inevitable.

So far in 2015, the European high yield market has defied many by outperforming that of the US. Many had believed the dislocation in US high yield, widely blamed on slumping oil prices at the end of 2014, would leave room for it to outperform Europe in...

Emerging market assets have seen another sharp summer sell-off and while this year's edition has been more violent than the past three, the causes are rather familiar.

The endeavour of projecting today's conditions, trends and relationships into the future inevitably results in errors of judgement - and economists continue to get caught out by the ever-changing market environment (often at the worst possible times)....