China has the economic scale, the financial firepower and world influence that should be the envy of most developed markets, says Neptune manager Douglas Turnbull.
Asian equities specialist Avo Ora has joined Pictet's emerging markets equity team as senior investment manager.
Allianz's Michael Konstantinov is backing Chinese GDP growth to remain around 8%-9% for the next few years despite expectations the country's central bank will act to tackle inflation.
Investec Asset Management is launching two UCITS III emerging market bond funds for Peter Eerdmans and Theo Stamos on 15 April.
Invesco Perpetual's Stuart Parks has moved his Asian fund more defensively in anticipation of a short-term 'pause' in markets.
Barings' Daniel Isidori is joining Threadneedle to take on the management of the £1.2bn Latin America fund.
Artemis' Jacob de Tusch-Lec has taken exposure to emerging markets from around 4% underweight to 4% overweight in his £27m Global Income fund since the beginning of the year following falls in share prices in the past six months.