infrastructure

How to play the winners and avoid the losers

Managers pick their top alternative assets

Frontier market indicies had a reshuffle this year as UAE and Qatar ascended to emerging market. VAM Funds' Chad Cleaver explains why Vietnam and Sri Lanka are now the leading lights of the sector.

From fee reductions and discount management, to more board scrutiny. Jeremy Beckwith, director of manager research at Morningstar, analyses the changing story behind investment trusts in 2014.

Investment companies fight for recognition

The energy infrastructure sector in the US has outperformed major equity and bond benchmarks over the past five years, posting annualised total returns of 32%, compared to 19% for the S&P 500.

Brazil faces increasing uncertainty in the run-up to its election following the death of opposition leader Eduardo Campos last month.

ALTERNATIVES

Murdoch Asset Management director Tony Dunne tells Julia Rampen why he prefers Mark Barnett to Neil Woodford, what opportunities he sees in student accommodation and why he is steering clear of the rally in Japan.

3i's head of its £1.2bn 3i Infrastructure trust, Cressida Hogg, has quit the firm to take on an unnamed role outside the group.