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Liquidnet opens doors to Pakistani equities

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
Institutional dark pool network Liquidnet will now allow trading of Pakistani equities in response to growing buy-side demand. The demand follows on from MSCI upgrading Pakistan from a frontier market to an emerging one. It also brings Liquidnet's total ...

MSCI adds China to indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
Global equity index provider MSCI will add China A shares to two of its indices starting June 2018. More than 220 China A large cap stocks will be incorporated to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, estimated to have a 0.73% weighting. China A shares will ...

Fees at the innovation frontline

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
After a round of fee cuts at Vanguard, Platinum Asset Management and K2 Asset Management, it's clear headline fees are currently front-and-centre in funds management - and research argues there may be different ways to tackle the issue. The latest paper ...

Emerging markets investment grows with new fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
An investment firm specialising in emerging markets launched its first fund at an event in Sydney yesterday. The Emerging Markets Sustainable Leaders Fund is the first fund from Remerga, providing investors with access to diverse markets such as South ...

Super fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Returning to the Australian institutional market last year, US asset manager ClariVest is now employing its emerging markets strategy with an industry superannuation fund. The EM strategy includes securities primarily selected from stocks traded in ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Reflation - the word that dominated central bank memes after the global financial crisis is back in vogue. While it became something of "it's at the back of everyone's minds, but not talked about" in intervening years, President-elect Trump has brought ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vanguard Australian Shares leads monthly ETF inflows

JOHN DYALL  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
Apart from the phenomenal growth of around 50% in the past 12 months taking total funds invested in exchange traded products to more than $20 billion, the big theme has been the reallocation of capital from Australian equities to international equities. ...

GBST partners with MSCI for after-tax services

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
Listed wealth management platform provider GBST has formed a partnership with MSCI to expand global equities after-tax calculation services at the indexing firm. The collaboration will, for the first time, see after-tax calculations made available on ...