Japan / Far East

JAPAN A YEAR ON

JAPAN

David Hambidge, investment director for pooled funds at Premier, explains why income is one of his top themes for 2012.

Charlotte Richards talks to global equity income fund managers about the benefits (and drawbacks) of the new sector classification, and what is driving the performance of their portfolios and dividend growth

Asia fund managers have warned China’s economy faces a series of challenges despite its meteoric rise to global superpower status.

Looking back at the weekend's national newspapers, your clients may have picked up on reports into unregulated investments, wills and pension fund fees...

Another year, another Japanese prime minister. Thankfully, when we buy Japanese equities, we are buying Japanese companies, not the Japanese economy and certainly not the Japanese government.

Fidelity's Anthony Bolton has said he remains a world equity market bull despite a global situation that he said resembles "a big game of poker".

As creators of credit, banks are in a very privileged position. To create a loan, the equivalent of making a sale for other companies, banks just need to type a number into a computer and hit ‘enter'. This is a licence that frequently gets abused if banks...

Hans Hamre, head of global equities at FundQuest believes it is only a matter of time before the economic sun rises over Japan again