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More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... director, US and emerging market equities product management, Fidelity International believes that the EMEA and Latin America regions present some of the best investment opportunities. Fidelity has a US$1.6bn EMEA fund, 45 per cent of which is allocated ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... net profit jumped 41 per cent to 1.44 billion euros ($A1.95 billion), boosted by last year's acquisition of FEMSA, Latin America's largest beer maker. The smaller European markets were also up, the Madrid bourse leading the way with a 2.05 per cent gain. ...

Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... said they expect to write over a billion dollars across the four regions they operate in: Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia and Middle East (including Australia).

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... ultimately reverberate into a crisis everywhere else around the globe. But we've seen this all before. It happened in Latin America, it happened in Russia, it happened in Asia. Guess what? We're still here! If they - them that don't have the wherewithal ...

CFSGAM wins $30m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... of the world resources industry is in Australia and we see major opportunities in places like Mongolia, Africa, Latin America and Kazakhstan, which the CFSGAM team is very well positioned to exploit," said Tim Hughes, NGS investment counsel. "We already ...

BlackRock appoints new MD for Brazil

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... team of 16 professionals located in BlackRock's Brazil office in Sao Paulo. He will report to Daniel Gamba, head of Latin America & Iberia for BlackRock. Prior to joining BlackRock, Andrade spent over 13 years at Itau-Unibanco. Most recently, he was ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
So what do we make of the equity markets now -- Now that some positive news appear to be slowly weaving their way into the headlines. Or is it just that financial market spin doctors have grown bored of staring down half empty glasses. Australian and ...

PIMCO favours Latin American and Asian bonds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
PIMCO has tilted its Global Bond Fund towards sovereign bonds in Latin America and Asia, shunning bonds from developed and emerging Europe. Peter Dorrian, head of global wealth management at PIMCO Australia, said Latin America and Asian countries, prior ...

PGI appoints CEO for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... West as managing director. He was promoted in November to oversee distribution for PGI in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Muller earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Georgetown University - School of ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... of emerging markets fixed income distribution and managed the businesses in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and Latin America. Before taking a role at Credit Suisse in 1993 he worked at Macquarie Bank in Australia. As managing director and head of Asia ...