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EM bonds attractive despite pullback: Eaton Vance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
The long-term case for emerging markets in bond portfolios is still strong, even though investors have pulled out billions in recent weeks, according to Eaton Vance. Investor sentiment on emerging markets swung negative in recent weeks on concerns over ...

Chief economist update: Draining the swamp

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... May 2011. For both measures, rates of inflation remained (on average) sharper in developed nations compared to emerging markets." Weakening global growth momentum, rising inflation? Are we in the early stages of stagflation? We may not be there yet ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... the yuan from 6.21 to 6.40 per one yankee dollar. The MSCI world index dropped by 10% in response and the MSCI emerging markets index fell by 10.6%. Speculations back then was that the depreciation would persist. Beijing tried to stem the slide by dipping ...

ASX-listed multi-boutique names new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... mandate brings GQG's total number of Australian and New Zealand clients to 16 across the firm's global and emerging markets strategies. GQG was founded in 2016 by former Vontobel chief investment officer Rajiv Jain and manages $16 billion in ...

Priestley resigns from ASX, Future Fund boards

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... investment bank. His other roles included J.P. Morgan's chief executive for ASEAN region, and leading the global emerging markets and international fixed income divisions across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Priestly stayed on as a non-executive ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... contracts in an effort to stabilise their markets." This is supported by Factset's data that showed the MSCI Emerging Markets index underperforming (down 1%) the MSCI Developed Markets index (up 1.9%) this year to date. This is a reversal of 2017's ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over a two-stage process and completing in August, HSBC says more than $783 billion of foreign investment ...

Instos partner with Canadian government

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... challenges include the lack of women in leadership roles; the persisting global infrastructure gap - particularly in emerging markets - and threats to growth posed by climate change. "Climate change, gender inequality and the infrastructure gap are all ...

Findex launches debt advisory business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... and appointed a former St George executive to lead the business. At St George, Ben Upton was industry lead for emerging markets, having been a senior business banking manager at NAB prior to that. Commenting on his new role, he said: "The opportunity ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into its benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index, MSCI All Country World Index and MSCI China Index - a culmination and fulfilment of MSCI's announcement made one ...