Utilities

Vauban Infrastructure Investing

Holdings will need to "plough through their own furrow"

Asia Pacific Property fund to close

It has been a turbulent few years for UK income investors.

Bias towards income payers

Investors discounting fears of slowdown

European indices approaching historic peak levels

The old saying "markets like to climb a wall of worry" proved spot on in 2017, writes Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

For the first time in a number of years, pan-European large company corporate earnings for 2017 look set to post a double digit year-on-year advance.

The sectors that have weathered the storm over the years