Analysis

A look back at investment trends over the past 30 years highlights a number of key events which significantly affected investors' behaviour.

Following the unexpected poor performance of ‘event driven' strategies in 2014, Philippe Ferreira, head of research, managed account platform at Lyxor Asset Management, analyses what went wrong and they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in 2015....

"Yes, I am a millionaire," a fund manager told me recently. He wasn't boasting, he wasn't showing off, and he is hardly what you would call the unacceptable face of capitalism.

Hannah Smith takes a closer look at recent launches in the micro-cap space, and how wealth managers are using these strategies to diversify their portfolios.

A prolonged rally in both equities and bonds has left investors facing a challenge to diversify away from crowded trades in recent months. Investment Week asks fund managers and buyers which trades in particular should be raising the red flags.

Generation Buy to Let

Time to revisit small caps

Nick Greenwood, manager of the Miton Worldwide Growth investment trust, discusses a little-heralded UK equity fund that could prosper this year.

Xavier Hovasse, manager of Carmignac's Emerging Discovery fund, takes a closer look at opportunities for investors in China and India.

There are plenty of mispriced contrarian investment ideas in Japan, writes Eastspring Investments' Dean Cashman.