China funds can invest without QDII
China’s mutual funds are now permitted to invest in Hong Kong shares using the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme, according to the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
China’s mutual funds are now permitted to invest in Hong Kong shares using the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme, according to the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
China has removed the $1bn investment quota cap for overseas fund management firms and Fidelity Investments is the first to take advantage.
Roughly 90% of companies represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index pay dividends, according to a research note by Capital Group.
Falling oil prices and the adoption of reform agendas means Asia could soon account for three-quarters of the MSCII Emerging Markets Index, said Catherine Yeung, investment director for Asia ex-Japan equities at Fidelity Investments.
The typically-held investor concerns about Asian fixed income diversification, liquidity and credit quality are diminishing, according to Jamie Grant, head of fixed income at First State Investments.
Equity funds sometimes seem all too similar, but differentiation can be sharpened through investment process and philosophy, said Jalil Rasheed, investment director and head of the Singapore office for Invesco.
Fund manager performance will be increasingly scrutinised as the investment environment moves into a tougher post-crisis phase, according to separate reports from Mercer and BlackRock.
Separating what has happened from what could happen is essentially what makes a contrarian investor, explained Joshua Crabb, who last year was lured away from BlackRock to head OMGI’s Asian equities team.
Analysts seem to be coming to a consensus that the price of oil will follow something like a backward checkmark trajectory, which calls for a very selective investment focus.
Oil prices have not found a floor, but Baring Asset Management believes the market reaction to the collapse is "disproportionate" to realities in the energy sector and will maintain its exposure.
Reforms in China will deepen in 2015, spurring a re-rating of the market and creating prime opportunities to invest in emerging industry leaders, said Mansfield Mok, senior fund manager, China equity, at EFG Asset Management.
Manulife Asset Management has hired Kathryn Langridge and Philip Ehrmann to run its new global emerging markets equity portfolio management team.