Equities

All boats rose with the tide in the recent frontier market rally. But for more discerning investors, Nigerian banks, Saudi Arabian healthcare and the Pakistani stock market all stand out as innovative ways to play the next market leg-up. Duet manager...

This week Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe returned with a ‘third arrow' plan for structural reform. Wether his plans succeed remains to be seen but other factors mean sustained recovery is on the cards for Japan, says Andrew Rose, manager of the Schroder...

Threadneedle's European equity manager Nick Davis is leaving the firm, handing his funds to Paul Doyle and Dan Ison.

BlackRock is planning to hard-close the £1.2bn BSF European Credit Strategies fund, managed by Michael Phelps to new money.

Mark Barnett's Invesco Perpetual Income and UK Strategic Income funds are to exit the IMA UK Equity Income sector in the next few days.

The biotech sector has stumbled in recent months as investors have moved to take profits on the industry's boom. Daniel Koller, manager of the BB Biotech fund, outlines the new breed of drugs set to push the sector higher.

SW Mitchell Capital's Stuart Mitchell, manager of the SWMC European fund, highlights three investment themes he noted following meetings with management teams at European companies.

UK shares held on to modest gains this morning after the final reading for UK GDP growth in the first quarter was held at 0.8%.

The FTSE 100 had a "historic" day yesterday after global mining giant Glencore appointed its first female director.

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