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Plato appoints senior manager for Global Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... First State subsidiary focused on smart beta. As lead manager, he was responsible for all developed and emerging market equity products. Before that Pennell has also worked for State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) in Sydney and London. In Sydney, he worked ...

Aberdeen beefs up local distribution team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... PwC. In his new role Hall will work closely with Aberdeen's multi asset team and with global, Asian and emerging market equity fund managers to promote these capabilities to Australian investors. Aberdeen head of distribution Stuart James said, "A key ...

BNP launches EM equity fund in Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has launched a Global Emerging Market Equity fund for institutional and retail investors in Australia. The fund uses a bottom-up approach to build concentrated, high conviction portfolios. It focuses on investing in small ...

Former BlackRock exec joins Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... lately. We see that a low-volatility strategy in emerging markets will allow investors to benefit from emerging market equity returns at substantially lower risk. To add to our unit trust offerings, our award-winning Robeco Boston Partners global equity ...

Emerging market turmoil is a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
Investors should seize the recent falls in emerging market equity markets as an opportunity to buy quality companies at a more attractive price, according to global large cap specialist Insync Fund Managers. The fund house is not altering its portfolio ...

Capital adds portfolio manager to ETOP strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... New York. ETOP aims to provide equity-like returns with lower volatility by investing in a broad range of emerging market equity and debt. The strategy had US$4.9 billion of assets under management as at 30 September 2013. Capital launched a unit trust ...

CIO exit forces Bedlam closure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... March that Bedlam was seizing on the opportunity posed by the soft-closure of a number of top-performing emerging market equity funds to attract Australian superannuation clients. The story serves to remind investors of the risk of a key person departing ...

Lonsec urges advisers to revisit EMs

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... across both categories were in such divergence," said Steven Sweeney, Lonsec senior investment analyst. "Emerging market equity returns have historically been hostage to investor sentiment, and so it proved once again." After a review of the emerging ...

Southeastern targets instos with Australian expansion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... and New Zealand business has already attracted local institutional mandates worth A$1.4bn, including a developed market equity mandate from the sovereign Future Fund. "Southeastern focuses on developing relationships with like-minded investors who share ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... fundamental fallacy that plagues a lot of emerging market investments," he said. According to Rainmaker research emerging market equity returns for wholesale managed funds averaged 7.62 per cent in the year to February with top performing fund Macquarie ...