Global

Baring Asset Management is set to launch a fund investing primarily in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, subject to regulatory approval.

Emerging markets specialist Argo Group is to launch Argo Multi-Strategy fund, a diversified multi-asset class portfolio offering access to all of the firm's funds and best ideas.

Threadneedle has expanded its Extended Alpha range, with the launch of the Threadneedle Global Extended Alpha fund.

F&C has moved to become significantly overweight in India in its global emerging markets portfolios, despite poor performance of that market since the turn of the year.

Investors are being urged to invest their money across all four BRIC economies rather than betting on a single country emerging markets fund.

Infrastructure and agriculture in Asia are two of the major investment themes favoured by David Urquhart, manager of the recently launched Fidelity Asian Aggressive fund.

New Europe is set for a sustainable period of solid growth driven by commodities, consumption and construction, according to JPMorgan.

Baillie Gifford has launched Emerging Markets Bond fund, with an initial target gross yield in excess of 7pc per annum.

Schroders has unveiled its Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS Global Emerging Market Equity Commodity fund, billed as giving investors exposure to some of the world's fastest growing and most important commodity stocks.

The US large cap sector will see improvements and stronger returns in the coming years, compared to small caps and bonds, according to SPA ETF.