Asia

Following a week when Japan was rocked by two more devastating earthquakes, Stephen Harker, GLG's star Japan fund manager, explains why he is at odds with optimists who expect the economy to bounce back later this year.

Fidelity's Robert Rowland has retired from portfolio management after 11 years, handing his Japan fund to June-Yon Kim.

World markets have dropped after Japan was struck by a second earthquake in as many months.

A tsunami warning has been issued for north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu.

Heather Manners has soft-launched an Asian Equity Income fund, the third offering from her boutique Prusik Investment Management.

TIME TO INVEST IN JAPAN?

In the midst of the Japanese nuclear crisis, Maria Merricks examines whether investors can find opportunities within the renewable energy space.

Intervention by the G7 and Bank of Japan to stabilise the yen following the Japanese earthquake means the easy money had now been made trading the yen, says Insight's Dale Thomas.

At this stage, it remains impossible to really judge confidently the scale of the damage from the earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that followed.

It is at times like this, with the Japanese earthquake and the suppression of the Middle Eastern population by some of its rulers, one of the oldest investment mantras seems entirely inappropriate - the best time to invest is when there is blood on the...