Europe

Elena Shaftan is the head of Jupiter's emerging European team and manager of the £626m Emerging European Opportunities fund with Ingrid Kukuljan. Here she explains her fund positioning, why she does not subscribe to the ‘bigger fool' theory, and why the...

The EU summit on 4 February passed off with surprisingly little drama. The EU nations for once decided to avoid interesting public rows on the future of the euro.

ON EUROPE

Martin Gray, manager of the Miton Special Situations portfolio, explains why high levels of real estate and consumer debt will cause further problems for an over-geared banking sector.

DEMAND FOR EURO WILL RETURN

Kate Barker, a former leading member of the Bank of England's MPC, has warned the UK economy could be only part way through the financial crisis.

Europe should relieve Greece of a third of its debt burden as the country's programme of cuts will only stifle economic growth, says Mohamed El-Erian.

AXA's multi-manager firm Architas is planning to launch a series of Ucits ‘distributor' funds midway through this year as part of a push into Europe.

Dicken's Threadneedle Pan European Smaller Cos fund tops IMA European Smaller Companies sector over five years

ON EUROPE