Asia still driving global growth

Investors are rediscovering emerging markets at a rate not seen since the asset class was the investment world"s hottest ticket in the early 1990s, say fund managers. With renewed appetite for risk, and drawn by both the demographics and reforms, money is pouring into economies growing around four times faster than developed markets. Asia is a very different place from the one plunged into financial crisis in 1998, and now offers equity investors one of the most exciting opportunities in the world, says John Crawford, director of Pacific Specialist Equities at Henderson Global Investor...