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Global equities tease income opportunity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... potentially unvalued markets and benefit from structural trends across the global economy, including growth in emerging markets," Parkin said. Parkin argues that high quality equity income strategies allow investors to participate in market upswings ...

Small-caps can improve investment trade-offs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... have been less volatile and generated better returns than Australian small-caps," the white paper said. "Global emerging markets equities in particular recorded significantly higher returns than global large-caps while returns were a little lower than ...

Frontier appoints debt specialist

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... Damian Moloney said: "Andrew has a broad geographic focus across global markets with a strong bias toward Asia and emerging markets and will complement the experience we recently brought into the firm through the hire of Anthony Michael." "With more ...

Australia tanks in global dividend index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... expect strong growth in Japan, North America and Europe partially offset by weakness in the UK, Australia, and emerging markets." Speaking to Financial Standard, Andrew Harvie, an investment specialist within Columbia Threadneedle's London-based global ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... inflation or both such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). It would be disastrous for emerging markets - particularly for those with debts denominated in US dollars - for it would put downward pressure on their respective ...

Advisers leading ETF investment charge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... recently seen fund managers looking to capture specific exposures through ETFs, which could be anything from emerging markets shares to Australian bonds, depending on their particular view," Mr Sherman said. "Active managers often use ETFs as a way of ...

Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Northern Trust is seeing interest is investors buying a quality-factor overlay with the highest quality companies in emerging markets who also have the best ESG posture, something which Hunstad says tends to do "very well historically." He added value ...

PIMCO Income fund launched in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... fund has specific limits on below investment-grade corporate securities and securities economically linked to emerging markets. "Investors increasingly want income while preserving capital and this strategy combines diversified sources of income with ...

Future Fund keeps powder dry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... to 22.9% and decreased Australian equities to just 6.5% of the portfolio. Developed markets account for 15.2%, emerging markets represent 7.3% of funds and private equity comes in at 9.8%. Property and infrastructure stand at 7.1% each, debt securities ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... scenario of just a few weeks earlier, 'ey? You know the ones - US$ strength prompting capital outflows out of emerging markets; made more pronounced by even stronger yen; even more by threat of yuan depreciation to keep the Chinese economy from landing ...