India's Narendra Modi won a second term as Prime Minster after a landslide win in the general elections in the world's largest democracy. Mr. Modi's party BJP won a simple majority with almost 300 out of 542 seats in the Lok Sabha (India's equivalent of the House of Commons).

Although they will only have 2-year maturities, the LTROs were already announced, so early that details are not even finalized yet. It was visibly considered necessary to send a strong message now.

Complete reversal in emerging equity markets in 2016: the highly geared/cyclical/risky stocks that collapsed in 2015 skyrocketed in 2016. Where to go? In 2015, emerging markets have had stormy times. An unexpected devaluation of the Yuan, the collapse of numerous emerging currencies and the implosion of China's local market were just some of the headwinds.

Launched this year, the BNP Paribas Flexible Fund Stars index allows investors to position themselves in an equally weighted basket of four UCITS flexible funds, all having an excellent accumulated performance, a track record of 5 years and significant assets under management...

Before coming to Carmignac Gestion, Laurent Ducoin was pan-European equities manager in the European specialist team at BlackRock in London