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GFC recovery only tentative

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... emerging [markets] have slowed down. So that strong dollar/weak commodity backdrop has been a real challenge for emerging markets." Head of economic and market research at Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Stephen Halmarick, said Australian ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... into global indices will likely boost foreign flows. The country currently represents around 25% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and about 2% of the MSCI World Index. But the percentages could grow to 40% and 14% respectively when Yuan-denominated ...

Nikko AM brings global equity fund to Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... team headed by Will Low. It can invest in a universe of around 5,000 globally-listed companies in developed and emerging markets and across all sectors. The manager said that the decision to open the fund in Australia follows an increase in allocation ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... liberalising the financial markets would be stymied - take two steps backward at worst, it won't be included in the MSCI emerging markets index now... and other combinations and permutations to that effect. But that will happen only if the Politburo ...

mFund doubles size in 6 months

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... with 26 funds in total. It is followed by international equities, with 23 funds including global equities (18), emerging markets (2), Asia Pacific ex-Japan (2) and infrastructure (1).

BMO to manage ESG for $53bn NZ funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Australian office in July 2013 and operates both the BMO Pyrford Global Absolute Return Fund and BMO LGM Global Emerging Markets Growth and Income Fund. It continues to service both institutional and intermediary investors.

China local bonds to shake up EM credit

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
The emergence of Chinese local government bonds will change the shape of emerging markets' credit landscape, BlackRock head of Asian Credit Neeraj Seth said. "We are still in the early stages in terms of development of the local government bonds," Seth ...

Redpoint awarded MLC equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... give investors exposure to a much wider range of share market opportunities, including those in fast-growing emerging markets," Mahalingam said. In May last year MLC also awarded Redpoint a $1 billion mandate A for an Australian shares index strategy. ...

Light at the end of the tunnel for EM debt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The correction in emerging markets fixed income has started, but this also means that the rebound is closer than investors initially expected, Lazard Asset Management said. In January 2015, it took one and a half months before emerging markets debt ...

North American sovereigns hardest hit by oil crisis

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... North America will suffer the biggest impacts of the sharp drop in oil prices, rather than those in oil-producing emerging markets. Invesco's Global Sovereign Asset Management Study shows that the majority (80%) of North American sovereign investors ...