Asia

Global economies are showing tentative signs of improvement, but not sufficient yet to encourage policymakers to materially alter their highly accommodative monetary and fiscal initiatives.

Japan's economy was one of the first to officially leave the recession and is now expected to grow faster than other developed nations, according to IMF forecasts.

Legg Mason has appointed affiliate, Batterymarch, to replace Esemplia Emerging Markets as manager of the Luxembourg-domiciled Legg Mason Asia Pacific (ex Japan) fund.

Henderson New Star is changing the £66m New Star Pacific Growth fund's mandate to provide income as well as growth and will rename it New Star Asian Dividend Income.

China's Q3 GDP figures released on Thursday show the country's economy is on a sustainable path, says J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Geoff Lewis, who believes wide scale fiscal tightening is still far off.

China has caught a lot of investors by surprise over the past 12 months.

Just as there is a two-speed Europe, it often seems, economically, Asia moves at two different speeds.

China is often viewed, perhaps justifiably, as an environmentally degraded smog-filled country.

Henderson Far East Income has consistently outperformed over current manager's tenure

The Chinese market has yet to become overvalued, says Singapore-based Henderson Horizon China fund manager Andrew Mattock