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A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... picked up." With coronavirus cases slowing in China, investors had recognised the opportunities for alpha as developed markets, like the US, continue to bleed red. "In our view, China is much closer to being back to normal and the PBoC has more ammunition ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... retail REITs. Retail has been under pressure in Australia for quite a while, just like retail in many other developed markets," Koh said "As Australia has a commodity-based economy and as demand collapses globally, that's not going to be great for ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... Investment's Global Emerging Markets Fund lead portfolio manager, Rishi Patel. "Emerging markets are borrowers and developed markets are lenders; whenever events like these happen money flows back home and that has a disproportionate impact on emerging ...

Best, worst equities performers in COVID-19 sell-off revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... (energy names in particular) have been hit hard. "This has created unprecedented fear and market uncertainty in developed markets." Australian investors have suffered heavy losses during the COVID-19 sell-off, as they race to sell anything and everything ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... institutional investors, think about ESG investment," Welsh-Rose said. "Many large institutional investors in developed markets, in particular, have been more seriously considering ESG factors in their mainstream portfolio investment decisions, integrating ...

Bleak year for dividend growth in Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... higher on an underlying growth basis. However, Australia was one of the laggards, and among the weakest of the developed markets. Australian paid about $55.5 billion in dividends, falling back to 2015 levels of $55.2 billion. Big, special dividends from ...

Future Fund returns 14.3% for the year

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... quarter to 13.7% at the end of December. Its asset allocation at December end sat at: Global equities (19% in developed markets and 10.2% in emerging markets), private equity (14.9%), cash (13.7%), alternatives (13.4%), debt securities (8.6%), infrastructure ...

China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... and Chinese indicators have been stabilising. This may project a diminishing growth gap between emerging and developed markets, which should support EM currencies versus the US dollar for a while," Buchet says. "Considering the relative value between ...

Global fixed income trust launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... currency management over a full market cycle," MFS said. MFS said the trust will focus on issuers located in developed markets, as well as investing in emerging markets. "It invests in corporate government issuers and mortgage-backed and other asset ...

Look to 2008 survivors: Ausbil

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... affected by the top-down environment. The Ausbil Global SmallCap Fund's investment universe captures 23 global developed markets with over 4000 securities. Ausbil chief executive Ross Youngman said: "Our global small caps team applies both fundamental ...