Equities

Lazard Asset Management, a specialist in developing world equity investing, is expanding its capabilities into emerging market debt.

Belgium's bond yields relative to the continent's benchmark Germany are rising at the fastest rate in the eurozone as the country struggles to fight its huge debt burden.

The asset management division of US banking group Wells Fargo is making its US-domiciled emerging markets fund available to UK investors as a Luxembourg Sicav.

Skandia Investment Group has appointed EM specialist Fisher Investments to oversee its new Global Emerging Markets fund.

David Aird, Investec's MD of UK retail distribution, discusses his group's 19-year experience investing on the African continent and how it can harness this expertise into its Africa Opportunities fund.

UBS' Paul Fairbrother believes European banks could see their share prices double in the next few years as stocks recover from their depressed valuations.

FUND MANAGER FOCUS

Invesco Perpetual's Paul Boyne believes investors are wrong to use price/earnings multiples to value equity markets.

EMERGING MARKETS

The US Treasury could announce plans to return independence to insurance giant AIG as early as this week.