emerging markets

Since Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke first raised the prospect of tapering on 22 May, bond funds have endured a torrid run, but some have coped much better than others.

ON ASSET ALLOCATION

Former BBC economics editor and now J.P. Morgan Asset Management's chief market strategist for the UK and Europe Stephanie Flanders give her run down of what investors can expect in the year ahead.

Prudential has reached five of the six objectives it had set itself for 2013 and is on course to reach its final aim of doubling the 2009 Asia new business profits by the end of the year, Tidjane Thiam said today.

SECTOR REPORT

Anthony Bolton's Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust has jumped up the performance charts after a stellar year which saw it return three times its benchmark index.

SOAPBOX

ON ASIA

FIVE THINGS

FIVE THINGS