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Frontier appoints new analysts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
Institutional asset consulting firm Frontier Investment Consulting has appointed three new analysts to work across sectors. Kenny Chiang will join Frontier in April 2012 from Mercer Consulting, where he worked in the fund accounting and client services ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
A new global equity model from MSCI-owned Barra is factoring in frontier markets, as institutional interest again returns to the subset of emerging markets. While interest in the markets dissipated during the global financial crisis in a flight from ...

Super funds call for calm amid market fall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... known, funds will be considering how best to position their portfolios. Kristian Fok, deputy director of consulting at Frontier Investment Consulting said that despite the expectation of prolonged volatility and the possibility of a slowdown in demand ...

Asian small caps as emerging markets go mainstream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Research house Lonsec expects product providers to move towards frontier markets such as Africa and small cap Asian equities, as emerging markets become more mainstream, a senior analyst said today. Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst for Lonsec ...

Debt and small caps broaden emerging market value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... equities because they sell at around a 15-20% discount relative to developed markets." Hoguet said that small cap stocks, frontier markets, local currency debt, real estate and even private equity would play a key part in emerging markets assuming more ...

Insurers want wireless relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... build interactive relationships with consumers, new research shows. The report by Telstra, Mobile Innovation - The Next Frontier for Growth and Productivity for Insurers, found that pay-as-you-use policies adapted for mobile phone technology may soon ...

Certitude partners with Threadneedle on global fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... MSCIAC World benchmark, managing across all countries, all sectors. "This allows them to invest in emerging, developed and frontier markets and it is actually take away some of the hard work for people that are trying to work out how to balance their ...

ASIC cautions industry after US broker tweeted into suspension

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... trading and no misconduct. Online financial communities and forums, blogs, Facebook and Twitter are emerging as the new frontier of investment communication and the financial regulators are watching closely. "The online sphere gives market participants ...

Trafford-Walker takes new role after securing CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... telling Financial Standard that it was looking to appoint a chief executive, Australia's second-largest asset consultant, Frontier, has secured Damian Moloney for the plum role. Managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker will take on the newly created role ...

No change to Korea, Taiwan status: MSCI

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... international investors, MSCI said. MSCI has also deferred its decision on reclassifying Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from frontier markets to emerging markets until December. The Egyptian equity market has now returned to normal functioning following ...