Equities

Investec Asset Management is launching two UCITS III emerging market bond funds for Peter Eerdmans and Theo Stamos on 15 April.

Following a week when Japan was rocked by two more devastating earthquakes, Stephen Harker, GLG's star Japan fund manager, explains why he is at odds with optimists who expect the economy to bounce back later this year.

Fidelity's Robert Rowland has retired from portfolio management after 11 years, handing his Japan fund to June-Yon Kim.

Swip Strategic bond managers Luke Hickmore and Roger Webb discuss the impact on the European sovereign debt crisis on their £68m fund, and how a flexible mandate has benefitted performance.

Jean Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, has defended yesterday's 25 basis point hike in interest rates as good for the eurozone, as EU leaders prepare for talks on the bailout of Portugal.

Sparks and Dickstein expect US Fed to keep holding asset class in short term

World markets have dropped after Japan was struck by a second earthquake in as many months.

A tsunami warning has been issued for north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu.

The Bank of England is likely to maintain its current monetary stance and keep interest rates at their historic low today after a new report suggested the UK's economic recovery remains sluggish.

Invesco Perpetual's Stuart Parks has moved his Asian fund more defensively in anticipation of a short-term 'pause' in markets.