MSCI

UK worst performing region year-to-date

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Protectionist agenda has raised concerns

Analysed more than 30 years of data

Since the late summer of 2010, the MSCI China index has barely risen at all. However, such apparent placidity obscures how rough a ride the market has taken investors on writes Douglas Turnbull, manager of the Neptune China fund.

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.

Stephen Macklow-Smith, manager of the JPMorgan European investment trust, takes a closer look at the factors that could drive an encouraging earnings story on the continent.

"Swift resolution" limits downside

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