Emerging markets

Thailand has been gripped by political unrest since last November, with its stock market enduring a tumultuous ride over the last seven months, but which funds have maintained their overweights, and how have they fared?

Part II: Where is the best value: Large, mid, or small caps?

The MSCI Asia-Pacific has hit its highest level in 12 months after a US session which saw small caps move off recent lows.

Fund managers cut Middle East exposure ahead of frontier index shake-up

Election results: Showtime for India

Part II: Is peripheral Europe overvalued?

CHINA

The "brutal" sell-off which has hit emerging markets for six since the start of the year is now at an end, Aberdeen CEO Martin Gilbert has said, with outflows from the group's fund range slowing.

Aberdeen has reported £8.8bn in net outflows for the six months to 31 March 2014 despite redemptions slowing in the final month of the period.

BlackRock is to launch an Asia Special Situations fund for Andrew Swan and Emily Dong, after bringing its first Asian equities fund to the UK market last summer.