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Emerging market turmoil is a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... after the Fed signaled it would scale back stimulus and China's economic growth showed signs of slowing. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index has slipped 11% from an October peak. Insync head of research Marcus Tuck said lower share prices for quality companies ...

MSCI upgrades heighten frontier market concentration risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... changes, which come into effect in May 2014, will see Qatar and the United Arab Emirates now included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Meanwhile, Morocco has been downgraded from an Emerging to a Frontier economy from November 2013. Feriani, who has ...

Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... markets," Melendez said. According to Bloomberg emerging market stocks fell to a 3-month low this month with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost 3.8% this year, compared with a 7% gain in the MSCI world index of developed-country stocks. Melendez said ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... markets in general remain in the black with the MSCI World Index posting an 8.8% gain this year to date, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has fallen by 1.9% over the same period. This is underscored by the emerging economies' flag bearers - the BRICs. ...

William Blair ramps up bid to win super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... The Emerging Markets Leaders portfolio has returned 20.01% over the same period, compared to 16.74% from MSCI Emerging Markets. McAtamney added that one of William Blair's strengths was that it did not aim to be all things to all investors. "We're not ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... slowest among the BRICs. Yet, India's Sensex 30 index has rallied by 25.7% last year - nearly double the MSCI Emerging Markets Index's gain of 13.9% -- and has risen another 2.6% so far in the new year despite the IMF's recent downgrade of the country's ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... plagued markets and economies throughout the year - a fact underscored by the smaller 8.3% increase in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index over the same period and the 10.2% rise in the MSCI World Index. President Benigno Aquino III's policies - increased ...

BTIM launches emerging market strategy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... at attractive valuations." The fund aims to provide a return before fees, costs and taxes that exceed the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net Dividends) in AUD over the long term. Before working at JOCHM, James Syme and Paul Wimborne worked together at ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... China (up 2.4% from 5 September to 28 September - it's on holidays this week) have all underperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. But not India. Its stock market has outperformed since the first of the major central banks' QE announcement - big ...

New emerging markets fund earns super mandates

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... smaller cap stock than many other fund managers," said O'Halloran. The trust is benchmarked against the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. "They can choose to invest in over 1000 companies in the emerging markets with a market cap between US$1 billion and ...