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Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... financial market - equities, commodities, currencies -- volatility, downgraded predictions for global (mainly emerging markets) growth, fears of a crash landing in China, low inflation/deflation risk, geo-political instability, Brexit, you name it we ...

Core holdings will be lacklustre in 2016: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... recent sell-offs. Overall investors should expect mid-low single digit returns. The investment specialist said emerging markets were clearly cheaper than last year but investors looking to pick up bargains may find themselves entering a classic value ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... decline in the US dollar would provide support for commodity prices, lower repayment costs for countries - mainly emerging markets - with US dollar denominated debts, ease pressure on further yuan devaluation and at the same time, underpin US company ...

Man Group appoints EM debt head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... Guillermo OssA(C)s joins Man GLG from HSBC Asset Management, where he was working from 2011 overseeing the firm's emerging markets fixed income business. Before HSBC, he held roles at PIMCO, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. OssA(C)s will report to ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... credibility. Then again, if the Fed returns QE... there'll again be increased liquidity flowing into risk assets and emerging markets.

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... commodities; and, anxiety over the trajectory of the Fed's interest rate policy and its impact on the US economy and emerging markets. In a way, all these are just a continuation of the same issues that concerned investors in 2015 (more or less). But ...

Most global equities managers outperformed in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... being overweight North America relative to the rest of the world and overweight developed markets relative to emerging markets. The most profitable sectors were the consumer, information technology, and healthcare sectors relative to the energy and materials ...

King Irving Funds Management launches

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... State Street has been appointed custodian of the fund. "With the hunt for growth spurring increased investment in emerging markets in the medium to longer term, the importance of selecting the right EM region with strong governance and regulatory standards ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... director said on top of low interest rates that "will last longer than most of you in the room will live," the emerging markets are investing at double the pace of western countries. He said this over-investment is creating mass excess capacity in the ...

Vanguard Australian Shares leads monthly ETF inflows

JOHN DYALL  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... million to bring its market capitalisation up to $361 million. At the other end of the spectrum the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Fund (IEM) lost $112 in net flows taking the market capitalisation to $375 million. It should be noted that flows in this ...