Opinion

ECONOMICS

My base case scenario for Europe remains the same, although my confidence in this has reduced.

Fidelity China Special Situations manager Anthony Bolton said the next 12 months should be a defining period for the country. In his view, investors will start to realise China is "not a house of cards that is going to collapse" and they will hopefully...

Evershed versus Duffield - coming to a computer console near you for Christmas. What about Modern War Fund Manager 2, on X-Box or PS3.

The credit crunch is now more than three years old. The chaos of 2008, the rushed policy responses and bank capital injections and the subsequent cyclical bounce have been followed by regular jolts to investor confidence, not least the one that gripped...

The last G20 meeting did not save the world. The last time one did so, it entailed nationalising or supporting large banks.

Since inception, the euro area has been an accident in waiting. Moreover, it was at a turning point in the cycle that the initial skid was always likely to occur.

This has not been a good year for President Obama. His opinion poll ratings have fallen as worries about entrenched unemployment have risen.

Encouraging people to save is seldom easy, least of all when inflation is eating into the purchasing power of capital and returns.

This quarter has been a tough one for the fund management industry as continuing uncertainty over the eurozone debt crisis hit sales and dragged down assets under management.