Equities

With Japan having announced a long-awaited programme of aggressive easing policies this morning, Artemis Global Select manager Simon Edelsten details four myths about investing in the country.

Martin Currie's Asian equity manager Jason McCay is to exit the group imminently, Investment Week understands.

Liontrust has scrapped rebates on its successful UK Smaller Companies fund, run by managers Anthony Cross and Julian Fosh, as it moves to premium price the product.

A group of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) shareholders have today launched a £4bn legal action against a number of top ex-directors, including Fred Goodwin.

Tidjane Thiam, chief executive of Prudential, is in line for a £7m share jackpot despite receiving a personal rebuke last week from City regulators.

ASIA

Institutional investors are likely to keep their cash in fixed interest this year and may even top up their holdings, despite talk of a shift into equities, said HSBC Global Asset Management's product specialist, fixed income, Brian Dunnett.

Baillie Gifford's European equity specialist Tom Coutts said the Italian election was not a game-changer for markets, but has thrown up opportunities for stockpickers as uncertainty hit share prices.

The worst of the eurozone debt crisis is over, according to Alliance Trust Investments' Fiona MacRae, as capital flows in the region start to reverse.

Europe is on the road to economic recovery as Ireland becomes the first country to emerge from the financial crisis, according to T. Rowe Price's European equity manager Dean Tenerelli.