During a recent visit to Canada, for the annual UN PRI signatory conference, I took the opportunity together with a few other investors to visit the oil sands operations in the Alberta region. What I heard and saw there made me realise that the Canadian oil sands industry needs stronger regulations...

New research from ING Investment Management (ING IM) amongst institutional investors reveals that between now and 2016, 61% believe the number of emerging market stocks paying these will increase – 14% anticipate a “dramatic” rise here. The corresponding figures for the next five years are 68% and 18%...

After ten years of strong growth, the Indonesian economy is slowing considerably. This is because of the falling Chinese demand for commodities, the gradual normalisation of US monetary policy and an inevitable decline in government expenditure.

Events over the week proved once more that one-way-bets do not exist in global financial markets. Not many investors felt that it was still possible for the ECB to surprise on the upside after Mario Draghi's comments at last months' Jackson Hole Symposium.

Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has completed the acquisition of ING Group's interest in ING Securities Investment & Trust Co., Ltd., Taiwan, the local asset management unit of ING Group, which was announced on January 10, 2014.