Equities
Emerging markets
Asian equities specialist Avo Ora has joined Pictet's emerging markets equity team as senior investment manager.
18 April 2011
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Asia
Henderson's Bill McQuaker says the recent move by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to prevent the yen soaring against the dollar could feed through to equity markets if it is the start of a new trend.
18 April 2011
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Europe
Back in July 2000 following the Asian crises, the IMF produced a report entitled "Currency and Banking Crises: The Early Warnings of Distress". The study looked at 102 financial episodes in 20 countries.
15 April 2011
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Europe
Greece is to privatise €50bn of state assets in an effort to fund its latest austerity plan.
15 April 2011
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Emerging markets
Allianz's Michael Konstantinov is backing Chinese GDP growth to remain around 8%-9% for the next few years despite expectations the country's central bank will act to tackle inflation.
15 April 2011
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Europe
Threadneedle's Dan Ison has backed the eurozone to continue to recover after adding 5.5% to European bank stocks in his £69m Pan European Accelerando fund.
15 April 2011
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Specialist
Polar Capital's Ben Rogoff has urged technology investors to focus on manufacturers of smartphones and tablets who will benefit at this stage of the sector's cycle, rather than last generation large-cap companies such as Microsoft.
15 April 2011
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