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Capital adds portfolio manager to ETOP strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
Capital Group has appointed David Holstein to the portfolio manager team for its Emerging Markets Total Opportunities (ETOP) strategy. Holstein has 23 years' experience in the investment industry including seven with Capital Group. The firm said he ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... purchase programme by September (exactly one year after it started) sent equity, bonds and commodities markets down. Emerging markets became the biggest casualty as funds flowed out of the region - especially among countries with huge budget and current ...

Developed economies to outshine emerging world in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... January -- and colleague Robin Anderson said that while loose monetary policy in the US had seen capital flow into emerging markets in the wake of the GFC, the current is likely to reverse when the Federal Reserve tapers the stimulus sometime by the ...

US tapering to harm key EM countries

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... stimulus is likely to harm emerging market countries with vulnerable currencies. Despite a slight recovery of emerging markets in the last three months, the asset class is likely to suffer once the US tapering starts, Threadneedle Investments Asia and ...

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
Investors should not interpret the performance differences between developed and emerging markets as a decoupling of the link between them, according to AllianceBernstein fund manager Morgan Harting. Emerging markets have performed poorly this year ...

Index portfolios mask geographical risks

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... global level, the MSCI All Country World Index is the broadest global equity index comprising 2500 companies. Emerging markets represent only 11% of the MSCI ACWI by market capitalisation, but 34% by economic exposure, or more than a third of all global ...

SSgA announces three new ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... (ASX ticker: DJRE) and SPDR S&P Global Dividend Fund (ASX ticker: WDIV) are available now while the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Fund (ASX ticker: WEMG) is expected later in the month. According to data from the ASX and cited by SSgA, more than 70% of net ...

Vanguard to list emerging markets ETF on ASX

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013

Future Fund boosts exposure to global equities, infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The Future Fund has increased its exposure to infrastructure and global equities in both developed and emerging markets and, at the same time, it has reduced its exposure to debt securities and alternatives. "Across economies, policy efforts to lift ...

While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... record low 68.15 rupee on the 28th of August. While the rupee's sharp depreciation was sparked by the sell-off in emerging markets ahead of widespread expectations of a taper in September, India's negative economic fundamentals - slowing growth, high ...