Old Mutual Asset Management's bond funds have moved back into negative duration after a temporary switch to positive duration at the start of the Middle East crisis.
The second half of 2010 saw continued strong returns from global emerging markets.
As emerging market indices take a pause in their sustained rise, the case for developed market equities is re-emerging.
The renminbi is poised to replace the yen as a global reserve currency within the next decade, says Franklin Templeton's Mark Mobius.
HSBC Global Asset Management has named Andy Clark as head of wholesale for EMEA, a role created as part of the bank's move to grow across the region.
Emerging market debt investors are shunning low yielding regions in anticipation of a further rise in treasury yields this year.
We are living through a phase when investors say they like Western shares and dislike emerging market shares.
Billionaire investor George Soros has urged Western nations to support revolutions in the Middle East to gain allegiance with new-found democracies.