Equities

With fund flows recently seeing a recovery, the trend in UK stock markets has seen home investors shifting their bias into emerging markets. Is this just a drop in the ocean or the start of torrential investment downpour?

Stock markets across Asia have rebounded strongly in 2009, outperforming the developed world, and the prospects continue to look encouraging.

HSBC Global Asset Management will merge its £26m American Growth fund into its £99m American Index portfolio following the former's struggle to outperform its benchmark.

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Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has awarded a £170m UK equity mandate to Investec Asset Management's Alastair Mundy.

It has been over a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Credit spreads, which skyrocketed during the crisis and remained high early this year, have retracted somewhat.

The past eight months have been remarkable for European equity markets.

Janus manager highlights importance of sticking to process to uncover intrinsic value

After unforeseen complications put the structured products sector on the ropes, eight retail providers have banded together proving the asset class was down but not out

OBSR has decided to suspend the AA rating on the £3.5bn Fidelity European fund following the news manager Tim McCarron is to take time away from the industry.