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Dubai to swoop in bad market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... clusters that attract foreign direct investment and people." He said Dubai is strengthening its links between emerging markets as those countries provide "hope" to the global financial sector. "We are part of the global community, we are learning and ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... responsibility standards. The 52 strong group wrote to companies listed on the MSCI World, FTSE All World and IFC Emerging Markets indices to sign the UN Global Compact, a set of principles regarding human rights, the environment and anti-corruption ...

Ratings first, platforms second: CAAM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... products: the CAAM VAR8 Absolute Return Fund, CAAM Global Bond Fund, CAAM AI Diversified Fund and CAAM Global Emerging Markets Fund. Borysiewicz expects the rating process to span over two years and said it is a long process because CAAM had to work ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... of its revenues came from its financing unit," said Marcal. Nicholas Applegate also became ultra-defensive in emerging markets in June this year, slashing its allocation in the region from 40 per cent to a low 2 per cent in its Pacific Rim fund. But ...

Macq launches EM infrastructure fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Macquarie has launched an emerging markets infrastructure fund aimed at retail investors. The Macquarie Emerging Markets Infrastructure Securities Fund, which was open to investors a few weeks ago, is headed by co portfolio managers Dave Dali and Jonathan ...

Lonsec approves iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... SmallCap 600, Europe 350, MSCI EAFE, MSCI Japan, MSCI Hong Kong and MSCI Singapore iShares. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets, MSCI Taiwan, MSCI South Korea, FTSE/Xinhua 25 and MSCI BRIC are also covered in the rating.

Fidelity gears for reflation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... bullish just yet, he said Fidelity International has moved US equities to overweight at the expense of Asia and the emerging markets. 'I continued to move money away from industrials (including resources), covering an underweight in global financials ...

Nestle shuffles asset allocations

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... pumped 30 per cent into the Russell Australian Enhanced Cash Fund. Meanwhile the fund's high growth option's emerging markets and direct property exposure have been cut from their respective 2.25 per cent and 15 per cent. The fund is now divided between ...

GMO opens EM portfolio to new frontiers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... market portfolio to include frontier economies such as Nigeria, Vietnam and the Gulf States. Marco Vangelisti, GMO emerging markets portfolio manager, said the firm is looking to allocate roughly two per cent of the emerging markets portfolio to frontier ...

Macq to open next Gateway

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... next version of its Gateway Trust to provide retail investors and self managed super funds (SMSF) exposure to emerging markets infrastructure, the Asian financial sector, energy and agriculture. Using research from Macquarie Research Equities house ...