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CFS Global Asset Management creates new emerging market debt team

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... credit, fixed interest and cash assets. It controls $51 billion in equities across the Asia Pacific and in global emerging markets. The establishment of the actively-managed debt team marks a significant expansion of the firm's capabilities, she said. ...

Asian small caps as emerging markets go mainstream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... 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, said the firm's ...

Principal Global Investors UK move

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... its multi-boutique model and global capabilities. The acquisition is expected to build Principal's presence in emerging markets and in global small and mid-cap companies where the investment firm believes there is a shortage of high-quality investment ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... different markets had performed. "Assets moved in proportion to their betas," he said. "US stocks went down, emerging markets went down even more, corporate bonds went down - but not as much - and Treasury bonds rose," he said. "But what else went up ...

HOSTPLUS, IOOF allocate mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... fund manager, Neuberger Berman Australia, has landed two mandates from HOSTPLUS and IOOF towards its global and emerging markets strategies. HOSTPLUS awarded Neuberger Berman a $90 million emerging markets equity mandate while IOOF has awarded the firm ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... inflation" and won't boost employment." Similarly, finance authorities of Germany, France, China, Brazil and most emerging markets criticised the Fed's November 2010 decision and even publicly called it "irresponsible". There'll be none of those now. ...

Debt and small caps broaden emerging market value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Small caps and local currency debt are among the broadening areas of opportunity for investing in emerging markets, which remain attractively priced for institutional investment, said a State Street global investment strategist. With emerging market ...

ING Investment adopts Bloomberg Platform

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... ranks analyst and research teams over a period of time. Patrick den Besten, head of ING IM's corporate analytics-emerging markets team, said their research analysts are based on a simple streamlined system "The Bloomberg Trade Ideas platform means our ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... debt negotiations "stalemate", the MSCI World Index fell by 0.6% last night. Due to the "deadlock", the MSCI Emerging Markets Index retreated by 0.4%. The "impasse" caused the Dow to lose 0.7% and the S&P 500 0.6%. Yup, grim reading. But if investors ...

BTIM extends global presence with $10bn manager buy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Hambro has a strong client base in the UK, Europe and increasingly America and a presence in Japan, Asia and the emerging markets. BTIM said the deal would reduce reliance on any single fund, strategy or individual and create a more balanced portfolio ...