Fidelity

Fidelity is launching a short-duration version of bond manager Ian Spreadbury's £3.3bn MoneyBuilder Income fund.

China's economic growth picked up in the fourth quarter of 2012, but data for the year as a whole showed the country recorded its slowest growth for 13 years.

Fidelity's head of research for European equities, Henk-Jan Rikkerink, has outlined eight core themes revealed in a recent survey of the group's investment professionals.

2012 was a mixed year for markets, with developed market equities recovering from a summer sell-off to make marginal gains, while some segments of the property and bond markets outperformed.

Investment strategists and asset allocation heads have labelled last week's fiscal cliff deal a ‘short-term fix', which could spark a fresh round of sovereign debt downgrades in the coming months.

BOLTON: MY OUTLOOK FOR 2013

Dalton Strategic Partnership's Peter Kaye is to join Fidelity to run its £1bn American fund, as current manager Aris Vatis leaves the group.

After a year of debate on a hard versus soft landing in China, leading investors in emerging market equities give their outlooks for 2013 as it appears China's economy has settled into a slower pace of growth.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment is to soft-close its popular FAST Europe strategy following a surge in inflows, Investment Week can reveal.

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.