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Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... from MSCI-owned Barra is factoring in frontier markets, as institutional interest again returns to the subset of emerging markets. While interest in the markets dissipated during the global financial crisis in a flight from risk, a long-term view and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... trending down. Combined with the Fed's comments, the indicators pushed investors to snap up stocks, the euro, emerging markets currencies and commodities. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.3 per cent to 5,795, Germany's DAX gained 1.8 per cent to 6,539.85 and ...

Long-term outlook bullish on emerging markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Central banks focused on supporting growth have eased inflationary pressure in emerging markets, with a positive long-term outlook, according to the Templeton Emerging Markets overview for Q4 2011. China's reduction of cash reserve requirements for ...

UBS: Political turmoil adding to market woes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... of a risk-free asset, another take-away for investors from the UBS predictions is to question the assumption emerging markets are riskier than developed ones - especially once political change is added into the mix.

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... positive performances. And why not? While we know all too well about robust economic growth in China and other emerging markets, the OECD leading indicator - the one that tracks the future performance of the developed economies - and global purchasing ...

Principal Global secures Advance Asset mandate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... PMs," said Advance in a statement. "Additionally, we viewed their smaller size, and ability to tactically enter emerging markets as a positive. Principal's access to global research and the incorporation of this research into the real estate security ...

Euro debt crisis has silver lining for advisers: PIMCO

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... ongoing European debt crisis if they play their cards right, according to PIMCO's US-based head of global and emerging markets product management, David Fisher. Speaking to Australian advisers last week, Fisher spoke about the multi-layered issues facing ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... sovereigns). To date, developed market equities have lost more than 10% of their value at the beginning year, stocks in emerging markets lost 14.5% and the price of commodities are down 7.2%. Beautiful government bonds increased by 10.8% but gold - its ...

Mercer highlights allocation dangers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... develop, when we just can't be certain yet," he said. Mercer also highlighted the potential benefits of investing in emerging markets and cash while global government bonds and global and Australian small caps have unstable futures. "Emerging market ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... what I call the "Autumn Angst" (you read it here first folks). Growth in China and the rest of the BRICs and emerging markets remain strong, thank you very much. And that major global driver America, recent stats there indicate that it's seen the tail ...