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TAAM to add two more clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... equities than in the developed markets. "I think it's gone from scepticism to almost a consensus view that global emerging markets are a relatively better place to be invested," he said. "We think we are only a third to the way through that circular ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Australian, Neil Harvey, has returned to Credit Suisse as managing director and head of Asia Pacific and head of emerging markets global for its asset management business after a stint in a number of other Asia Pacific firms. Harvey comes back to Credit ...

European and Japanese funds on the outer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Funds specialising in European or Japanese shares have shrunk as investors eye opportunities in emerging markets, according to a report. A review of regional equities by Standard & Poor's found the sector had fewer strategies available than the prior ...

Room for Russia in BRIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... do fine," he said. T. Rowe Price's global equities fund available in Australia has a 19 per cent allocation to emerging markets, some 6 per cent more than its benchmark (the MSCI-All Country index). Murray Brewer, the Australia head, said their allocation ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... managers across 385 products. Recently added to the APL is the Aberdeen Emerging Opportunities fund, Schroder Global Emerging Markets fund, IFP Global Franchise fund and the Solaris Core Australian Share Income fund. Four Barclays index funds were added ...

SSFS ushers Asian Century in $1bn global equities overhaul

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
State Super Financial Services has made a decisive move into emerging markets by carving out 10 per cent of its global equities allocation and transferring it into emerging markets strategies. Oscar Fabian, chief investment officer and general manager ...

Low rates to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... These, along with the resumption of the downtrend in the US dollar, would reinforce the US dollar carry trade into emerging markets and commodities. These would bring anxiety about the fate of the US dollar and worries over bubbles. These would keep ...

ETFs delve deeper into China

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Australian financial planners may soon be able to diversify their exposure to emerging markets after iShares launched its China A Share exchange traded funds (ETF). The five ETFs started trading in Hong Kong last week and are not yet available to Australian ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... soul. Sure we have the usual suspects warning of the US dollar carry trade prompting speculation and a bubble in emerging markets. Nobody expected Desert Storm to hit. Not even the experts. On the day Dubai announced the "standstill", Bloomberg reported ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... what China, Hong Kong, Japan, et. al. were warning about just a week ago? Is this the speculative frenzy into emerging markets driven by the US dollar carry trade, driven by ultra low US interest rates? Time and again, we are shown the nasty consequences ...