Jupiter

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The Japanese market has gone from strength to strength this year, with shares soaring as the recent expansionary policies of new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe power the economy. But which funds offer investors the best way to play the ongoing rally?

Charles MacKinnon, chief investment officer at Thurleigh Investment Managers, has named five funds he is backing as he looks to boost exposure to equities in his portfolios.

Jupiter has promoted Mike Buhl-Nielsen to lead manager on its Europa fund as Stephen Pearson steps back to focus on his deputy chief investment officer responsibilities.

Fund buyers have been selling out of high yield bond funds as liquidity dries up in the secondary market and they predict little value remains in the asset class.

Hermes has listed its 11-strong suite of UCITS funds in the IMA sectors, ramping up its push into the UK wholesale market just as Jupiter's John Chatfeild-Roberts buys into one offering.

Jupiter's £400m Ecology fund has added a second benchmark, the FTSE Environmental Technology 100 index, as manager Charlie Thomas proclaims environmental investing has "come of age".

Fund group CEOs have blamed the impact of RDR for a sharp divergence between UK fund sales and those elsewhere in the world at the start of 2013.

Kira Nickerson discovers that some fund managers are beginning to re-examine this previously unpopular asset class.