Feature

Madhav Bhatkuly, manager of the GAM Star India Equity fund, explores whether India's aims to slash red tape and install new trading laws across districts will be enough to ensure business productivity remains on track.

Bulking up and diversifying out

To circumvent the interest rate and the liquidity risks in high yield, Olivier Debat, senior investment specialist, global & absolute return fixed income, at Union Bancaire Privee, looks at if CDS indices are the answer

Japan is attempting to resurrect its economy, and bringing with it more tourists and eagerly awaited corporate governance reform, says Genzo Kimura, economist at SuMi TRUST

Edmund Harriss, manager of the Guinness Asian Equity Income fund, says Asian countries have proved resilient to recent financial and commodity crises by becoming integrated manufacturing hubs that are not dependent on commodities

Despite the soaring performance of China's domestic stock markets over the last year, Asia remains the medium-term laggard. Paul Hilsley, manager of the L&G Asian Income trust, explores if forthcoming rate cuts and reforms on investment spending will...

Peter Fitzgerald, head of multi-asset at Aviva Investors, analyses the growth prospects for developed and emerging markets and the impact of future central bank actions.

A market for stockpickers

Twenty years of successes and failures for the junior market

Ian Currie, the founder of boutique firm, Seneca Partners, talks to Investment Week's editorial director, Lawrence Gosling, about the opportunities to invest in companies being cut out of the traditional banking and finance routes.