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EM specialist enters Australian market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... alpha boosting small to mid cap firms from these markets. Advanced Emerging Capital specialises in emerging and frontier markets which are traditional Asia and BRIC exposures supplemented by up to 50 additional investible countries in Africa and the ...

Investors set to remain cautious: Franklin Templeton

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... 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.

UK manager enters local market

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... 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 ...

Northern Trust wins Dutch pension mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... 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 director ...

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 ...

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
... 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 global ...

Certitude partners with Threadneedle on global fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... 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 investment portfolio." ...

No change to Korea, Taiwan status: MSCI

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... 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 a closure ...

Axioma branches out

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... Models (v 2.1) include expanded history, introduction of short-horizon model variants and the addition of 17 new frontier markets. Axioma's global and regional models now extend back to 1997 to include over 14 years of history. The additional history ...