Fidelity

Leading global equity investors cast their eye over their favourite markets for 2012, and give their outlooks for the coming year, in which several developed economies will face significant macro-level challenges.

Fidelity's Anthony Bolton has predicted a turnaround in China next year as the economic cycle shifts in the country's favour.

For months now, in the build-up to the end of year RDR deadline, fund providers have been anxious to tap into adviser and client demand for risk-rated, multi-asset portfolios.

Fidelity has unveiled a fourth multi-asset product for manager Trevor Greetham, within its Multi Asset Allocator range.

Fidelity's Ian Spreadbury has warned conditions in bond markets are the most risky he has seen since he started his career 30 years ago.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has launched a low-cost US tracker fund as it moves to mimic the success of its UK tracker fund among direct investors.

Investor confidence in the outlook for China's economy has surged to a three-year high, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for November.

Fidelity's Anthony Bolton has conceded his China Special Situations trust has endured another 'disappointing' six months, but he is hopeful the upcoming leadership election could provide a boost to returns.

Fidelity Worldwide Investments (FWI), which serves the UK market, is hiring a team of in-house US analysts as it prepares to sever ties with its Boston-based research arm.

Fidelity has revamped its Asian fund range in a move which gives the managers the ability to invest more of their portfolios in the onshore Chinese stock market.