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No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... in fourth quarter real GDP (because it agreed to austerity measures in return for EU/IMF aid), China and other emerging markets remain in tightening mode, and just last night, Burma and Thailand were shaken by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. But did equity ...

AMP Capital to recruit in infrastructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... no gap as a result of the departures," said AMP Capital Investors. Shaw has over ten years experience covering emerging markets, while Humphreys has focused on the North American infrastructure market. AMP Capital Brookfield said it plans to recruit ...

Upside in fixed income: Aberdeen

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... way," said Paul Griffiths, global head of fixed income, Aberdeen. The asset manager has looked increasingly at emerging markets such as Latin America, where Venezuela is a house favourite, and leans strongly towards Asia. In credit markets in general ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... the job of lifting RARE's retail contribution to one third of its total FUM. Ongoing economic development in emerging markets, strong power pricing, predictable cash flows and M&A activity should drive growth in the year ahead. In Europe, Spain, Portugal ...

More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
As investors spend time weighing up the pros and cons of investing in Asian growth assets, other emerging markets, with some of the most attractive trading valuations, are often overlooked. James Cook, associate director, US and emerging market equities ...

Riots turn fund managers to risk review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Emerging markets are now a portfolio staple but riots in North Africa and other high-risk regions have forced fund managers to reassess their portfolios in the region, particularly their investments in mining stocks. Department of Foreign Affairs and ...

Developed markets enjoy strong inflows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... traction. Concerns, mainly inflationary, but also geopolitical, have contributed to the shift of capital out of emerging markets and into the more hospitable investment environments of the Western world. "In February of this year, there was the largest ...

No risk of a double-dip recession: survey

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... it would be volatile and patchy depending on the market. "Established Western markets will continue to lag the emerging markets on most measures, with the Euro zone and Japan having the worst headwinds," he said.

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... markets' performance - have risen by 6.1 per cent this year compared with a 2.7 per cent decline in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. According to the report, "While emerging-market equities beat developed countries every year except 2008 in the past ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard landing in China, competitive devaluation, trade war ...