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India's investment exuberance

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... Accounting and Financial Services. "It's growth and positioning means you need to get involved with it," he said. "Emerging markets are going to become so critical. The interesting question is whether the country is ready for the way and how fast it ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... contains 72 companies with a market cap of US$2.1 trillion. The S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap Shariah index focuses on emerging markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico ...

Macq launches retail fusion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... Investment Lending, said the fund provided an opportunity for retail investors to have a greater weighting to the emerging markets in Asia within their portfolio. "In times of market volatility, capital protected products also become very popular. This ...

Emerging markets a safe bet: Mobius

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
Fundamental improvements to emerging markets mean they are no longer the high risk, unstable economies they used to be and ripe for investment, according to Templeton Asset Management's executive chairman Mark Mobius. Mobius said strong GDP growth ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
Investor sentiment across developing countries in Asia remains buoyant, and higher than in more established and sophisticated markets, according to an ING study. The ING Investment Sentiment Tracking Study surveyed 1,308 'mass affluent' investors in ...

More rich get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... 2007 World Economic Outlook, the IMF forecast slower global growth, albeit of a still respectable 4.75 per cent, emerging markets have taken over as the leading contributors to global growth. Merrill Lynch and Capgemini found Asia-Pacific showed among ...

Building BRICs

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... considering the fundamentals supporting growth in BRIC economies, (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the broader emerging markets. "The BRIC markets are driving global growth. Consensus is that BRIC economies will grow at over 9.5 per cent this year ...

Investors eye emerging markets infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... when it launched a product that will give Australian investors faster and cheaper access to the $1.12 trillion emerging markets infrastructure sector. Subject to regulatory approval, the group is set to list the PL100 - Emerging Markets Infrastructure ...

Principal goes beyond property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... Principal Global Investors is set to go beyond its traditional property and income products with the launch of a new emerging markets fund and global equities fund early next year. The global equities fund will be a true first for the company in Australia ...

Portfolios not adjusted for downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... begs the question of whether they are in denial about the possible extent of this downturn." Of the key markets, emerging markets and Eurozone equity markets remain popular, with 36 per cent of allocators overweight in emerging markets equities and 37 ...