Bonds

The 'growth gap' between emerging and developed markets is widening in the former's favour and emerging markets are expected to grow by a robust 4.5% this year, according to Muzinich's Warren Hyland.

Addition to Global Investor Series

Managed by Hawkins and Spector

QE losing effectiveness

Negative returns from bonds

Nick Gartside, J.P.Morgan Asset Management CIO fixed income and manager of the Global Bond Opportunities fund, talks to editor Katrina Lloyd about why Mark Carney did exactly the right thing by cutting rates, and why fears about bond market illiquidity...

At its August meeting, the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) halved the bank rate to 0.25% in addition to implementing a new Term Funding Structure and a purchase of up to £70bn UK corporate and government bonds.

The global economic and investment backdrop was altered by the UK's decision to leave the European Union towards the end of June, writes Brooks Macdonald's Jonathan Webster-Smith.

Follows hire of Ennett

As US interest rate hike looms