Equity

Management philosophy, sectoral and geographical distribution, growth in emerging countries ... Florence Marty and Olivier Hakim, portfolio managers at LBPAM Actions Euro Focus Emergent reveals the strategy of the fund performing 13.80% at end June 2012...

There is a clear distinction between the travails of the eurozone and the prospects for successful, ’world beating’ European companies. I think that the world has changed: in recent years, European companies have become much more global and more than ever, the quality of the business model ’trumps geography’.

After the strong start to the year equity markets are getting vulnerable to profit taking. A further rise in oil prices could well provide the excuse for doing so, certainly as the momentum in liquidity creation seems to have peaked

There is little doubt that dark clouds are still drifting on the horizon of the global economy. The Euro crisis still has the potential to erupt into an existential threat for the Eurozone’s economic system with a very destabilizing fall-out for the financial system in the rest of the world.

Investors should view Asian debt as a mainstream asset class and not simply as a subsection of the global bond universe, according to Chia-Liang Lian, manager of the Legg Mason Western Asset Asian Opportunities Fund