Analysis

Ooi Boon Peng, chief investment officer, fixed income at Eastspring Investments, looks at how last month's devaluation of the renminbi is spilling over into other Asian bond markets

Jason Hsu, co-founder of Research Affiliates, explores how investors can determine the most important performance and risk factors when putting together a portfolio, and ensure they have the most significance

Nick Price, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Japanese Values trust, explores the key changes being made by Japanese corporates.

Is China downturn a social crisis caused by naive investors?

Asset management groups have just six more months to comply with the fifth iteration of the UCITS directive, which is set to increase the gap between UCITS and AIFMD funds and also overhaul fund manager remuneration policies. Charles Bathurst, consultant...

Mark Barnett, head of UK equities at Invesco Perpetual and manager of the Edinburgh investment trust, analyses the growing pressures on listed companies from a number of sources.

Christine Tadros, head of European research at Xtract Research, highlights the key trends that have been seen in the first half of 2015, and which are likely to impact the market in the coming months

Tony Dalwood, CEO of Gresham House, explains how the search for ‘new' alternative asset classes has seen investors turn to a hybrid approach uniting private strategies and public markets

Pimco's real-return manager, Bransby Whitton, takes a closer look at the advantages of holding commodities in portfolios despite the asset class's recent slump.

The number of investors allocating to ‘new' alternatives such as infrastructure and private debt is on the rise, according to the Preqin Global Alternatives Report.