India

Investors with a high tolerance for risk are looking towards less developed ‘frontier markets' that are excluded from conventional emerging-market indices.

Former SWIP portfolio manager Divya Mathur will head up Martin Currie's forthcoming India fund, which is likely to come to market next year when there is sufficient investor appetite for the product.

ON ASIA

Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is eyeing China and Russia as the most attractive BRIC countries while shunning "expensive" India.

ON ASIA

Inflation is creeping into smaller Asian markets but don't dismiss the region writes Maria Merricks.

One of India's largest asset management firms is bringing a UCITS-compliant Indian equity fund to UK investors in the late summer, hosted by T Rowe Price.

Debt is a funny thing for markets. Have too little of it, and spirits sag. Share prices perform badly and investors worry there will be insufficient growth.

Indian private equity group ICICI Venture is launching an Indian OEIC this July, aimed at UK investors.

Is the long-term investment case of India still in tact? Is infrastructure still an attractive story? Michael Konstantinov, manager of the £877m Allianz RCM BRIC Stars fund visits companies in India to find out.