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PIMCO to take RE in-house

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... including the Australian Bond Fund, Australian Focus Fund, Capital Securities Fund, Diversified Fixed Interest Fund, Emerging Markets Bond Fund and Global Credit Fund. The current RE for these products is Equity Trustees (EQT). The move follows PIMCO ...

Global investment landscape needs rethink

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... fundamental shift in the make-up of global companies and that multinationals have found success developing products in emerging markets. "Unilever's Pureit water purifier was developed in India before being sold in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Nigeria. ...

Zurich fund receives first rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
Zurich Financial Services Australia's Emerging Markets Equity Fund has received its first rating from Zenith. Rated 'Recommended', Zenith noted the fund's unique focus on companies with sustainable high dividend yield and its ability to outperform low ...

EM equities beating global indices: VanEck

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... indices over 2016's third quarter after several years of underperformance, according to VanEck research. VanEck emerging markets equity portfolio manager David Semple explained that while EM has "generally underperformed" over the past five years, "the ...

EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... Investors, has won its first Australian institutional mandate. IOOF Investments has added the fund manager's Emerging Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix global equities multi-manager structure. EAM said emerging markets small cap stocks ...

NZ Super Fund posts decent full-year return

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... environment. Global equity markets experienced negative returns over the year, with the MSCI developed markets and emerging markets indices returning a combined -1.88%. She added that the Guardians' Board remained focused on the long-term and therefore ...

New fund of funds taps Indian equity specialists

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... consumption not export-led." "Whilst there is usually a specific allocation to India within any international or emerging markets fund, we'd contend and our correlation analysis proves that the risk-return outcomes for a portfolio are improved by a separate ...

Vanguard changes emerging markets ETF index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
Vanguard Australia has completed its planned change in the underlying index of its Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Shares ETF (VGE) in order to provide investors with exposure to China-A shares and a bigger weighting to smaller companies. Effective as ...

Fund managers must offer genuine partnerships

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... Jain. The global equities portfolio manager, whose impressive track record managing international equity and emerging markets funds for Vontobel Asset Management saw the firm grow from US$400 million under management in 2002 to just under US$50 billion ...

Investors must look past Australia for opportunities: BAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
... think that's been brought to the fore in the last two years. So two years ago if you had passive exposure in emerging markets, you're the proud owner of a whole lot of downside quite frankly. "People are obviously putting money into those funds but I ...