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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 ...

Robeco wins two mandates worth $500m

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... China A-share equity market, along with China's shifting economic profile, will have a tremendous impact on emerging markets indices - the inclusion of the whole A-shares market will push China's weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index up to ...

Rest awards global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 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 ...

Industry fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
An investment manager fast approaching US$10 billion in assets under management and advice recently won an emerging markets equities mandate from an industry superannuation fund. ClariVest Asset Management will manage the $75 million mandate from the ...

Thematic SMAs on the rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... a 50.6% return. Finally, the International Equity Income Concentrated SMA comprises stocks from developed and emerging markets and is designed to deliver clients a steady income stream. In the past 12 months it has returned a yield of 8.1%. "It provides ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... anchors its methodology on J.P. Morgan indices: the Emerging Market Bond Index (EMBI), the Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) and the Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index (CEMBI). Its methodology comprises five components once the baseline ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... This seemingly reversed in the last year, in part due to the recovery in oil prices, as well as strong growth in emerging markets such as China, it said. Other notable activity in the sector saw Russia's Reserve Fund cease operations at the start of ...

Royal Commission to boost ETFs: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... just three months later, according to Rainmaker data. Already this year it has launched two new products; an emerging markets, smart beta ETF and a sustainable global equities product. VanEck has also been busy building out its team in Asia-Pacific ...