currency

Boosted by Trump's fiscal stimulus plans

To hedge currency risk

Japanese equities have earned themselves a reputation over the years as the market everyone loves to hate, writes Trevor Greetham, head of multi-asset, at Royal London Asset Management.

Japan was one of the most popular areas with UK investors in 2015, with some £1.2bn of flows into the IA Japan sector and more than £400m going into the IA Japanese Smaller Companies sector, as investors tried to hone in on those domestic companies benefitting...

Stocks with innovative business models have done well

As the 'lower for longer' yield mentality in developed markets appears to be morphing into 'lower forever', the higher yields available in emerging market fixed income may offer an alternative, writes Claudio Da Gama Rose, associate portfolio manager...

Up 1.2% against the US dollar

Benchmark unconstrained approach

Herd mentality in markets

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.