Equities

Launched in February 2008, the £127m Jupiter India fund has significantly outperformed its peers in the IMA Specialist sector over the past year, up 100.4% to January 11, compared to the sector average of 40.4%.

With some justification, investors took an increasingly positive view of the prospects for most Asian markets last year.

Martin Currie is to launch a UK domiciled open-ended China fund to be run by James Chong on 10 March.

The major UK banks are falling as the market absorbs the wider implications of Barack Obama's plans to keep US banks on a tighter leash.

Fund managers believe Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland are the UK banks most likely to suffer if the latest US plans to curb risk taking in the sector are effected.

Investors seem more than happy for the market to continue moving higher and the latest investor sentiment surveys indicate the bullishness among investors is now at levels not seen since 2007.

All ingrained beliefs, however deep, face occasional challenges. The trick is to understand whether the challenge is legitimate, in which case we must be willing to revise our beliefs, or opportunist and/or short-sighted, in which case we should not

This week's panel debates the experience of investors in the European equities sector

As 2008 rolled into 2009, global investors were still recovering from the most traumatic of years, felt most acutely perhaps in emerging markets.

The Copenhagen summit put climate change firmly at the top of the news and political agenda. But what opportunities are there for investors?