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China on course for slowdown, not landing: Fidelity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... China is in for a soft or hard landing is overplayed, according to David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia Fund. Speaking at a Fidelity briefing in Sydney this week, Urquhart pointed to recent IMF projections of 8.2% in Chinese growth ...

Asian small caps as emerging markets go mainstream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Research house Lonsec expects product providers to move towards frontier markets such as Africa and small cap Asian equities, as emerging markets become more mainstream, a senior analyst said today. Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst for Lonsec ...

Neilson loosens reins at Platinum

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... fund. Clifford was a co-founder of Platinum, is second-in-charge of the investment team and is manager of the Platinum Asia Fund. Platinum Asset Management said the changes were a reward for strong performance and provided motivational goals. Ratings ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Value Partners, the fund manager underpinning Sydney-based Premium China Fund, has once again scored top rankings in the Thomson Reuters Extel Surveys. The fifth annual survey results asked executives of several hundred firms including brokers, broking ...

Support grows for Asia Funds Passport

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
A new report further supports the push for Australian fund managers' access to rapidly growing investment markets across Asia, with suggestions of APEC potentially establishing a working group on the proposal. Asia's funds management industry apparently ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom Report" and adviser to the TAAM New Asia Fund, is perhaps most famous for advising his clients to get out of the stock market one week before the October 1987 crash. ...

Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... own neighborhood and kind of go, Asia's a good place to be," said David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia fund. "Some are operating their own businesses in those (Asian) markets and they are familiar with what's going on and are quite ...

Yuan revaluation drives hedge fund flows

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
Investors flocked to Asian hedge funds in the second quarter, attempting to take advantage of China's moves towards increased currency flexibility, according to a note by US-based Hedge Fund Research. Asian hedge funds experienced net inflows of $360 ...

New FM for Share Plus

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... Management equities analyst, Rosemary Tan, in a similar role. Tan worked at Platinum as an analyst for the fund manager's Asia fund, covering stocks in China and Hong Kong. She previously worked at MMC Asset Management covering small and mid-cap stocks ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... actively managed funds over three and five years. A Platinum spokesperson said the Platinum International fund and Platinum Asia fund have experienced the largest flows in the past 12 months due to both funds' performance and focus on capital preservation. ...