Asia

The Shanghai stock market rebounded while the Japanese yen strengthened against the US dollar on the news the Bank of Japan will keep its asset buying programme unchanged.

Making investment predictions will be 'treacherous' in 2015 given the risks in the geopolitical environment, according to Ruffer investment directors Hamish Baillie and Steve Russell.

Hideto Yamamoto, chief executive officer & chief investment officer at DIAM International, explores what Japan needs to do if the Topix is to pass 1,800 for the first time since 2007

In 2014, Japan unleashed a radical stimulus package, fell back into technical recession, and saw a tentative economic recovery stalled by a dramatic sales tax increase.

A number of emerging market countries have already started implementing significant reforms which could spur economic growth, according to Templeton's Mark Mobius.

GLG's Japan CoreAlpha team discuss the implications and possible consequences of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide election win this weekend.

Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic party has swept to victory again in the snap Japanese election held over the weekend.

RWC is to launch a UCITS version of its Japanese Stewardship fund for European investors.

Japan's economy shrank more than initially estimated in the third quarter of 2014, according to revised gross domestic product (GDP) figures.

It has been a turbulent couple of months for policy makers in Japan.