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First State manager believes understanding assets is vital to performance in resources

HSBC has launched a Global Inflation Linked Bond fund which will invest in sovereign debt issued by OECD countries.

BNY Mellon has launched a Dublin-domiciled version of James Harries' Newton Global Equity Higher Income fund - offering sterling, dollar and euro denominated share classes.

BlackRock veteran Bob Doll predicts the US stock market could achieve annualised returns of 8% over the next decade.

Invesco Perpetual star manager Neil Woodford has committed $25m to a new AIM-listed vehicle which will make investments in troubled African nation Zimbabwe.

Jupiter Financial Opportunities co-manager Guy de Blonay has moved a significant amount of the fund's large cash weighting back into the markets, particularly the Far East.

Graham French, manager of the £4.28bn M&G Global Basics fund, has moved defensively in recent months on concerns over a slowdown in global growth.

Investment guru Jim Rogers believes another recession will be due in about 2012, but the difference next time will be the inability of central banks to throw cash at the problem.

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Investec Global Energy fund managers Jonathan Waghorn and Mark Lacey have used the BP-led downturn to add to a number of stocks "unjustly punished" by the Gulf of Mexico disaster.