Stock selection has been the key to outperformance for funds in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan sector over the last five years.
Invesco Perpetual is launching an Asian equity income portfolio for head of Asian equities Stuart Parks and manager Tim Dickson later this quarter.
Alliance Trust has placed new managers on its Asia Pacific Equity and Japan Equity funds in a bid to boost performance.
European markets have fallen sharply this morning with the FTSE 100 down 1.1% or 61.8 points at 5,511.63.
Aberdeen's Hugh Young and his Asia Pacific team have won OBSR's Outstanding Fund Manager award.