Investors' aversion to anything seen as 'risky' has driven down bond yields to levels which could actually suggest complacency with regards to the riskiness of many government bonds, writes Tony Finding, multi-asset manager at M&G Investments.

Tim Mortimer, managing director at Future Value Consultants, explains how the requirement for asset managers to display future performance simulations on their fund literature under PRIIPs regulations has created problems.

One of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announcements in August was the intention to buy up to £10bn of corporate bonds over an 18-month period, writes F&C's Ian Robinson.

The emerging markets asset class remains at the forefront of the world's most vibrant and fastest-growing economies, with overall gross domestic product growth rates comfortably in excess of the developed world this year, despite much-publicised slowdowns...

Raman Aylur Subramanian, head of equity applied research at MSCI, analyses the opportunities different emerging market countries have offered investors in the recent rally and how a handful of sectors have been key to the region's outperformance.

Passive providers could do everything their active peers do with a little creativity and more joined up thinking, writes David Stevenson.

At the start of the year, broad-based fears that an emergency step devaluation of the renminbi was needed to prevent China's economy undergoing a 'hard-landing' were weighing heavily on the country's stockmarket.

Japan's domestic economy still seems to be stumbling along. From one quarter to the next, Japan data watchers have been rewarded with revisions down (FY2016 GDP revised to 0.9%, down from 1.7%) as well as revisions up (Q2 GDP revised up to 0.7% quarter-on-quarter,...

Thermal coal staged a remarkable rally this year, just when it was written off by investors, writes Sanlam FOUR's Adour Sarkissian.

Conflicting forces are buffeting UK equity income investors. Tailwinds include the record low base rate, which is boosting the appeal of dividend income, according to Aviva Investors' James Balfour.