Global

A year hyped as the start of a great rotation from bonds into equities actually saw more of a trickle out of fixed income, but it was not plain sailing for bond funds.

ON ASIA

Saxo Bank has published a list of ten 'outrageous predictions' which could play out in 2014 and impact global investment markets.

AFRICA

Despite an increase in market chatter on the need to adjust the outlook for European central banks and the US, price dynamics for most financial markets have remained fairly muted of late.

Brian O'Neill, one of the country's longest-serving managers, is to retire from his role running the Henderson Global investment trust next year.

GLOBAL EQUITIES

ON ASIA

ON THE US

UBS Global Asset Management CEO John Fraser is to retire from the group, having headed the asset management business since 2001.