Global

VIENNA-based Raiffeisen Capital Management (RCM) has launched the Raiffeisen-Emerging ASEAN-Equities fund in the UK and Jersey.

GUINNESS Asset Management has launched the Guinness Global Energy fund as the second installment of the firm's drive to launch a series of specialist sector and thematic funds.

EUROPEAN markets are currently being driven by sentiment and uncertainty, rather than fundamentals, according to Credit Suisse.

THREADNEEDLE has launched a hedge fund designed to combine its expertise in Asian equities with its experience in running equity long-short portfolios.

STANLIB's Standard Africa Equity fund has attracted over $250m of investment since launch on August 15, 2007.

Raiffeisen Capital Management, the asset management arm of Austria's RZB banking group, is looking to add sterling share classes to its range of eight European bond and equity Ucits III funds.

Skandia has unveiled the ten managers who will each control 10% of its new European Best Ideas fund.

SEEKING to benefit from the rising prices of agricultural commodities Neil Rogan, head of global equities at Gartmore, has established several positions in both the Gartmore Global Focus and the Gartmore SICAV Global Focus funds.

BY focusing on Russia, China and India, many investors are overlooking a number of smaller 'up and coming' emerging markets, according to Gregor Holek, of Raiffeisen Capital Management's (RCM) Emerging Markets Equities team.

CONTINENTAL Europe still offers a number of good investment opportunities, according to Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg, managers of the Gartmore European Selected Opportunities and the Gartmore SICAV Continental European funds.