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Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... private equity deals accounted for 15% of fundraising globally, at $17.2 billion, according to a report by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA). This is nearly half of the $38.5 billon raised in 2011, which the EMPEA said indicates ...

MIR Investment Management re-brands

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Specialist emerging markets equities fund manager, MIR Investment Management (MIR), today announced it would re-brand to Metisq Capital Pty Ltd (Metisq). MIR was established in 2003 as an Australian equities specialist. In 2007, MIR launched capabilities ...

Quest for lower volatility spurs new Aus EM fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
Capital International has launched an Australian fund version of its Emerging Markets Total Opportunities strategy, aimed at capturing growth while dampening volatility. The objective-based strategy focuses on investing in a range of traded securities ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... Just as it did the two previous QEs, QE3 will work. More so now when all hands are on deck -- China and other emerging markets have now shifted to an accommodative stance and Europe's on OMTs and its ESM approved -- and Ben won't stop until it does. ...

Lofty A$ supports offshore ETFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... put some risk back on people are not necessarily doing that it a fully risk-on way such as going headlong into emerging markets. "Instead they are looking at buying global large cap companies that are well exposed to the emerging market consumer, which ...

Sluggish growth the new norm: Janus

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... progresses through the current trough, Wellso expects to see a notable rotation out of less risky assets back into emerging markets - as they start performing again - while the outlook for cyclicals will also become more favourable. Casting the single ...

Lonsec urges advisers to revisit EMs

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... scratching for many emerging market investors due to the nonsensical reality of US and European equities outperforming emerging markets, while the economic fundamentals across both categories were in such divergence," said Steven Sweeney, Lonsec senior ...

Challenger attributes 20% profit growth to annuity/life

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... rise in FUM to $31 billion with net flows of $4.2 billion, including $1.1 billion from the acquisition of Asian emerging markets specialist firm MIR Investment Management by Challenger's Fidante Partners brand. The company's 2013 targets are 15% for ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... agricultural, industrial, urban and environmental needs. Added to the increased global demand from industrialising emerging markets is also the problem of supply contamination, Lourey said, with China being held up as an example of industrial effluent ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... perfect storm! You could have a collapse of the eurozone, a US double-dip, hard-landing of China, hard-landing of emerging markets, and a war in the Middle East. Next year could be a global perfect storm." Or yesterday's warning by PIMCO CEO, Mohamed ...