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PE firms Myanmar bound

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Cube Capital, the Indochina Opportunities Fund (a joint venture between Vietnam's Dragon Capital and private equity firm Frontier Investment & Development Partners) and Link Road Capital Management, according to Reuters commentary. The US last month ...

EM specialist enters Australian market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
UK based emerging and frontier market specialist Advanced Emerging Capital has entered the Australian market to give investors access to alpha boosting small to mid cap firms from these markets. Advanced Emerging Capital specialises in emerging and ...

HSBC invests $100m in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... the top 10 river basins will exceed that of the USA, Japan and Germany combined. A new report commissioned by HSBC from Frontier Economics showed the contribution to global GDP of the top 10 river basins is set to increase sharply, with the nine most ...

Fidante Partners continues expansion with new hire

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... equities manager Greencape, and Sydney-based long/short equities manager WaveStone. Chatfield joins Fidante Partners from Frontier Investment Consulting where he worked as a senior consultant and was responsible for providing advice to superannuation ...

Investors set to remain cautious: Franklin Templeton

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... when asked to consider the longer term, more believe that Emerging Markets will provide better returns than developed or frontier markets, yet few are actually prepared to shift their investment strategy at this point," said McKay.

ING Direct launches new adviser website

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... model in the digital space and it's a natural progression to bring the benefits of that experience to the third party frontier," said Claes. ING Direct has $1.4 billion in funds under management.

$10bn in Asia M&A deals so far in 2012

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... other sector market shares were in single digits. Financial services deals, despite expectation that this is the next frontier in the region, accounted for only 3% of aggregate transaction value in the quarter. The hottest sectors by number of companies ...

UK manager enters local market

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... AFM Investment Partners to enter the Australian institutional market. Advance Emerging Capital focuses on emerging and frontier markets and will work with AFM to introduce direct equities and fund of fund opportunities locally. John Donovan, AFM's managing ...

Legg Mason Real Income Fund rated Highly Recommended

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... airports and other utilities. Legg Mason's Portfolio Manager of Real Assets Ashton Reid said hard assets represent the new frontier in income because until now, they have generally been overlooked by Australian investors and product providers who have ...

Northern Trust wins Dutch pension mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... index management products and capabilities across the spectrum of asset classes and covering developed, emerging and frontier markets, and a long and successful track record in indexing going back to 1973," said Gerard van Leusden, asset management sales ...