Equity markets

Increasing uncertainty

Delegates at Investment Week's regional briefings in Edinburgh and Manchester heard from a number of global equity income fund managers who discussed the stock and sector tailwinds boosting their portfolios in 2016 and the risks challenging their investment...

The long-term, secular trends that have fuelled Asia's rapid growth over the last decade are well known, yet one trend - the burgeoning Asian middle-class consumer - is a secular force that is still only in its early stages, according to T.Rowe Price's...

Market volatility continues

Sweden, Japan and Switzerland all imposed negative rates

Yield target for Asian Income falls to 125% of index

Fear over banks' profitability

Brad Tank, chief investment officer - fixed income, Neuberger Berman, discusses the major transition in central bank philosophy that has appeared in recent weeks.

When was the last time you woke up in the middle of the night worried you had not bought enough baked beans? Or the last time you saw Unilever on the front page of a tabloid? Probably never.

As more established 'dividend heroes', including the giant Foreign & Colonial and Witan investment trusts, report rising dividends for more than 40 consecutive years, the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has identified the up-and-coming funds...