India

Aspirational consumers with an insatiable appetite for luxury Western brands are growing in numbers throughout emerging markets, where favourable demographics have created a generation of young workers with spending power.

GOSLING'S GROUSE

Asian investment house Lion Global Investors (LGI) has launched three funds into the UK, including an Asian Income mandate which it hopes can challenge the existing powerhouses in the sector.

ETHICAL

ON ASIA

India's growth rate has dropped to its lowest level in nine years as falling external investment, a weak rupee, and an erosion of confidence impact the economy.

INDIA

Leading UK think-tank NIESR has warned rising unemployment, which could hit 9% by the end of the year, will do permanent damage to the UK's productive capacity.

ONE TO WATCH

First State Investments' emerging market and Asia Pacific specialist Angus Tulloch tells Kyle Caldwell about the macroeconomic headwinds preventing him from taking a bullish stance on the region.