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Asian equities approach fair value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Financial planners may want to reassess their clients allocation to Asia's emerging markets as one investment specialist reckons Asian equities are no longer cheap. Stuart James, senior investment specialist at Aberdeen Asset Management, said Asia's ...

Maritime awards $155m to equities managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... $50 million to Ironbridge as initial investment allocations. The fund dropped its investment mandate to GMO's Emerging Markets product. Robertson said the review found the fund was overweight to emerging markets so it cut the GMO mandate to reduce that ...

Temasek seeks more Asian exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... billion Temasek Holdings, which recently flagged a new charter that would open its mandate book to more Asian and emerging markets fund managers. The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund has updated its charter as part of its 35th anniversary, which includes ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... of 2009. Recovery has already started in some advanced economies (Australia, Germany, France, Japan) and most emerging markets (China, India, Brazil, parts of Asia and Latin America. Other advanced economies (US, UK, Spain, Italy and other euro area ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... have been missing out on Asian equities' sterling performance, if the meteoric 41.3 per cent rise in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in the last eight months is anything to go by. Graeme Colley, superannuation strategy manager of ING Australia, said ...

VicSuper and FSS win AIST scholarships

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... scholarship winners were planning to undertake the third Global Dialogue in Hong Kong next year involving a study of emerging markets. "The Global Dialogue enables participants to consider contemporary challenges about long- term investment returns in ...

Wells Capital wins EM mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... Wells Fargo & Company, has been selected by Japan-based Nomura Asset Management to manage the firm's $1.1 billion Emerging Markets Consumer Stock fund. Wells Capital Management is sub-advising the fund with the emerging markets team which is headed by ...

Templeton and TAAM top EM review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
The Templeton Emerging Markets fund and the Treasury Asia Asset Management New Asia fund were the only two out of 15 funds in the sector to be rated 'highly recommended' by Lonsec. The Lonsec annual review of the sector found the AMP Capital Asian Equity ...

OptiMix appoints new managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... Global Shares Portfolio. The firms join Capital International in the global shares line-up. The OptiMix Global Emerging Markets Shares Portfolio has also added Batterymarch Financial Management and Pioneer Investment Management Limited to its portfolio ...

Aussies lag behind in PRI implementation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... self assessment survey data from signatories, also concluded that in general scores recorded by Asia Pacific and emerging markets signatories were lower than those recorded by European and North American signatories. At the same time, the report said ...