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Australasia sees continued Canadian investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... returned 12.7%, driven mainly by direct investments in the transportation and utilities sectors in Europe and emerging markets. PSP said it divested itself from both Sydney Airport and Myria Holdings - owner of NGPL and a provider of natural gas transportation ...

Fund assets surge while market shrinks: FSC/Morningstar

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... having 20% lower fees on average than other jurisdictions. Global property securities trusts were 12% lower, and emerging markets equities trusts were 17% lower. "These results, comprising data from some of the world's largest fund managers, show that ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... innovations." AP4 intends to benchmark its regional equity portfolios against MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Indexes in Europe, Emerging Markets, North America and Pacific. The equity portfolio in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) will track the MSCI Low Carbon Target ...

Man GLG completes EM debt team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... research at Barclays. He has also worked with the North American FX strategy team and has spent time as a senior emerging markets strategist. Lisa Chua also joins as a portfolio manager and will be based in New York. Previously Chua worked as part of ...

William Blair funds rated positively by SQM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... by research house SQM. The William Blair Global Leaders fund earned a 4.25-star rating and the William Blair Emerging Markets Leaders Fund earned four stars. Explaining the ratings, SQM said in a statement: "Its in-depth fundamental analysis procedure ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... Michael said there were four key questions being asked by investors: the chance of a hard landing in China; whether emerging markets or developed markets will outperform; the impact of secular stagnation over the next decade; and how the Australian economy ...

Investors looking to real estate over infrastructure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... to previous years, sovereign investors are now less willing to overlook political and regulatory concerns in emerging markets to hit target allocation. "Sovereigns are quick to adjust perceptions of market attractiveness based on changes in economic ...

MSCI delays China A shares inclusion in indices

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... Global index provider MSCI has delayed including mainland China-listed equities, known as A shares, in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Over recent months Chinese authorities have introduced significant improvements in the accessibility of the China ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... most vulnerable to global risks, and instead be invested in USD-denominated emerging market debt. Second, many emerging markets' sovereign and corporate bonds are "both high-yielding and idiosyncratic," so should generate high returns without reference ...

Concerns about EM unwarranted: William Blair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Global investment and asset manager William Blair believes there are several undue concerns from investors about emerging markets and they should be cautious about underweighting the asset class. In a recent self-authored white paper, William Blair portfolio ...