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China’s banks are moving fast to set up funds to manage domestic consumers’ new-found taste for equities

Fund managers say strong fundamentals should help emerging markets outperform, as long as the US avoids outright recession

Both buy-side and sell-side are finding specialist stars in short supply as the emerging market universe expands

Central bank overwhelmed by liquidity gush, although higher food prices from flooding should be contained

Emerging markets can ride out US woes, Inflation dilemma in CEE

The credit crisis caused by overheating in the US subprime mortgage market claimed its biggest victim this week, as the German government had to marshal the country’s banks into a consortium to rescue IKB Deutsche Industriebank.

Clay Lowery at the US Treasury argues that sovereign cross-border asset holdings could threaten the international economy, and regulation is urgently needed

John Lipsky, first deputy managing director, argues that its adoption of exchange-rate surveillance policies and greater consultation with member states proves the organisation is still relevant

Inflation remains low, but overcapacity and underdeveloped market mechanisms pose concerns for sustainable growth and the banking sector

Global credit crunch may dampen appetite for risky assets, and western fund managers may be snubbed, undermining hopes that sovereign wealth funds could soften the slide in emerging market investment

The world’s stockmarkets, locked in battle for the past two months with bearish debt markets, lost some of their pluck yesterday (Thursday), as fears of a credit crunch drove them off the peaks they have recently conquered.

Norbert Galfusz, managing partner of real estate fund Whitestone Investment in Kispest, tells Portfolio.hu how similar Vietnam's real estate market is to that of Hungary 17 years ago