Equities

What can the UK funds industry learn from the US?

Nordea's Jorry Noddekaer is seeing an increasing number of investment opportunities in private Chinese companies, as the country's new leadership sparks a change in outlook.

RWC is to launch a UCITS version of its Japanese Stewardship fund for European investors.

A torrid year for equities in 2015?

Old Mutual UK Smaller Companies manager Dan Nickols has noted the "rich source of ideas" represented by the IPO market ahead of 2015's listing season.

Emerging markets are on the cusp of a fourth wave of reform, and this will matter more than any monetary or fiscal policy changes ever would, explains RBC's Richard Farrell.

The dearth of value opportunities in Western equity markets alongside a host of other issues leaves emerging market equities as the last man standing. Should income seekers change their focus?

James Henderson has added a small stake in Tesco to his Lowland investment trust, after shares plunged 15% following the supermarket's third profit warning in four months.

A cocoa price crisis, Draghi quitting the ECB, and a devaluation in the yuan could all be on the cards for 2015, Saxo Bank chief economist Steen Jakobsen (pictured) has predicted in his annual ‘Outrageous Predictions'.

Jason Vaillancourt, co-head of global asset allocation at Putnam Investments and co-manager of the CF Canlife Total Return fund, on taking advantage of recent market volatility.