Russia

To commemorate Investment Week's 20th Anniversary, Hardeep Tawakley assesses the impact of major events in financial markets since 1995.

Neptune Investment Management is set to make a number of changes to its investment approach following a comprehensive review of the business, with the aim of improving performance.

Legal & General Investment Management fund manager Justin Onuekwusi is considering adding Russian bond exposure to the £200m Multi-Index fund range for the first time.

Russia's credit rating has been cut to junk status by ratings agency Standard & Poor's for the first time in a decade.

Richard Titherington, chief investment officer emerging market equities at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, takes a closer look at the benefits of dividend-paying stocks as investors struggle in a challenging environment

Russia's central bank is considering cutting interest rates at its next meeting later this month, shortly after raising them to 17% in an emergency move to halt inflation.

The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil has dropped to below $46 in early trading, a fresh six-year low, as the commodity's collapse showed no sign of slowing down.

The precipitous decline in the oil price has continued this morning, with a further slump in Brent crude seeing it trade below $50 for the first time in more than five years.

Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi, the most significant voice in the OPEC cartel, has said the group will not cut production even if the price of oil falls to $20 a barrel.

Vladimir Putin has said Russia could take as long as two years to recover from its burgeoning economic crisis.