Equities

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.

GAM has launched a Ucits III emerging market debt and currency fund, managed by Pharo Global Advisors.

GLG Partners has extended its '1 and 20' charging structure to include its Global Emerging Markets fund.

Fund managers have sought to downplay the potential fallout from the Dubai debt crisis on both their holdings and the global economic recovery.

While the rest of the developed world benefited from significant amounts of liquidity injected via Quantitative Easing (QE) programmes, Japan had a comparatively tight fiscal policy.

With fiscal and monetary stimulus appearing from all directions, the US GDP hit a positive 3.5% in Q3 2009, most likely indicating the end of the recession.