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Vision Super seeds emerging market debt fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... and limiting drawdowns during volatile market conditions. The fund aims to offer institutional investors more than 90% of EMD market upside for 50% of its volatility and less than 50% of its downside and allocates risk to five complementary risk/return ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... broad-based rally is not over and the EM market is entering a period of differentiation. "In this environment, how one invests in EMD is going to be critically important, in our view. "We are focused on three areas; the critical role of country-level ...

Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... as well as the ability to access markets will be key for managers to achieve investment success at this critical time for EMD." They said they have a more neutral view on currencies and their view on interest rates has been raised to overweight. "We ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
The world economy would advance by 2.5% this year, a tad stronger than the "post-crisis low" of 2.4% estimated for 2019. This is the World Bank's prediction contained in its January 2020 'Global Economic Prospects' report, noting that: "While ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... be instrumental in redefining the investment universe and setting an industry standard to help make ESG investment within EMD more broadly accessible to all investor types. This is a big step forward for emerging market investment," he said.

Instos chasing EM debt for value

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... said ESG considerations have "the potential to generate enhanced alpha for investors and should be a structural component of EMD investing." "ESG analysis has become an important part of credit analysis for developed market corporates, principally as ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
An influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...

EM currencies potential alpha source

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... public debt, and a track record of inflation targeting and fiscal discipline than in the late 1990s and 2000s, the majority of EMD managers are underweight this segment, providing substantial scope for alpha. Osses believes the bias toward EMD hard currency ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Australian institutional investors have not achieved optimal exposure to emerging market debt over the past decade because they have depended on broad global bond strategies which have tended to avoid economies which are unduly perceived as very risky. ...

Threadneedle makes four new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
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