Henderson's Charlie Awdry expects Chinese inflation to cool in Q4 and fall towards 5%, allowing the authorities flexibility to ease monetary policy and boost shares.

Ian Sayers, director general of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), believes as Skandia, FundsNetwork and Cofunds move towards unbundled pricing models, investment trusts move one step closer to competing on a level playing field with OEICs....

Japanese investment trusts' high concentration to small and mid caps has paid off, with the sector outperforming the open-ended space over the past year.

Legal & General Investment Management's Richard Hodges has been buying into UK banks' subordinated bonds as well as boosting his exposure to government debt.

Hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam has received the longest ever prision sentence for insider trading after he was jailed for 11 years in a landmark ruling in the US today.

Minutes of last month's meeting of the Federal Reserve's open market committee have raised the prospect of a third round of quantitative easing to boost the US's sluggish recovery.

Jayesh Manek's £40m Manek Growth fund has soared to the top of the UK All Companies sector, losing just 2.5% in the last three months of excessive market volatility.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut Asia's growth forecast for this year and next, and said it fears Europe's debt crisis may trigger a sell-off in Asian assets.

The president of the European Commission has warned the eurozone's banking system needs to be fully recapitalised to ward off a systemic crisis, at cost of hundreds of billions of euros.

Luxury fashion house Burberry Group, a long standing favourite of Schroders' Richard Buxton, has continued to beat market expectations as the group reported a rise in revenue for the first half of the year.