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New business opportunities created by structural changes in Japanese society are providing higher growth potential for companies and more options, writes SuMi Trust's Katsunori Kitakura.

Especially with China remaining uncertain

Investment activity is lower

FTSE 250 underperforms post-Brexit

Bowie, Brexit and Bake Off - 2016 has already delivered a number of shocks. Fretful investors could therefore be forgiven for seeking investments that are as safe as houses.

Despite Europe's proximity to the UK, euro credit has been the least volatile of the three - a fact largely explained by the European Central Bank's (ECB) well-received corporate bond purchase programme, first announced in March which has directly supported...

Fund flow data shows European equities have posted 29 consecutive weeks of outflows, the worst run since 2008.

Corporate earnings drive returns

While the MSCI Frontier Markets index formally classifies some 23 countries as 'frontier' markets, there are actually around 160 countries that do not feature in developed or emerging market indices which could be considered frontier.

Aims to stop firms hoarding cash is working