Emerging Markets

  • Wealth Manager Profile: Stonehage Fleming's Graham Wainer

    Wealth Manager Profile: Stonehage Fleming’s Graham Wainer

    Stonehage Fleming’s focus on intergenerational wealth provides a strong platform from which to provide the ‘grown-up, long-term investing’ CEO Graham Wainer believes is vital in a globalised world that remains ever-vulnerable to political events.

  • PA ANALYSIS: China must deliver on ‘global powerhouse’ status

    PA ANALYSIS: China must deliver on ‘global powerhouse’ status

    With reports of China flexing its ballistic missile might in response to Trump’s “provocative remarks”, let’s hope Chinese New Year is celebrated with the right kind of fireworks.

  • Morningstar cuts high yield exposure back

    Morningstar cuts high yield exposure back

    Morningstar has reduced its discretionary income portfolios’ holdings of high yield bonds, using the money to raise exposure to “good value” emerging market debt.

  • The seven key asset allocation questions this year

    The seven key asset allocation questions this year

    Head of asset allocation at Legal & General Investment Management Emiel van den Heiligenberg has outlined what he sees as the seven key questions facing investors this year.

  • BMO GAM adds EM ETF to range

    BMO GAM adds EM ETF to range

    BMO Global Asset Management has added an emerging markets ETF to its offering, expanding its so-called ‘income leaders’ fund range.

  • Bullish outlook for EM debt

    Bullish outlook for EM debt

    Fund managers believe emerging market debt looks more attractive in 2017, although China is still a big concern.

  • Trump Tantrum in emerging markets prompts $24bn exodus

    Trump Tantrum in emerging markets prompts $24bn exodus

    Foreign investors took their money out of EM assets at the fastest pace since the 2013 Taper Tantrum in November, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

  • Asset managers follow fund buyers and put cards on EM

    Asset managers follow fund buyers and put cards on EM

    Fund management companies expect the world’s highest returns over the next 12 months to be found in emerging markets. They have severely downscaled their return prospects for European equities over the past couple of months, apparently in response to the attitudes of their clients.

  • May's mission to India highlights opportunity for investors

    May’s mission to India highlights opportunity for investors

    Theresa May’s visit to India is her first trade mission as Prime Minister and an important one for the UK as it looks beyond Europe.

  • PA Podcast: Taper tantrum, Trump and the outlook for EMD

    PA Podcast: Taper tantrum, Trump and the outlook for EMD

    In this week’s edition of the podcast, Kaan Nazli, emerging markets economist at Neuberger Berman discusses whether or not there is still room to run on the EM rally, where he is seeing opportunity in the debt space and how a Trump presidency could affect the market.

  • PA ANALYSIS: Weighing up White House risk

    PA ANALYSIS: Weighing up White House risk

    With less than a week to go before one of the most contentious presidential contests concludes, some market participants are ignoring the noise, but many are fretting over shocks to equity markets and the potential fallout from protectionist trade policies.

  • PA ANALYSIS: High-yield bonds and emerging market debt – Divergent fates

    PA ANALYSIS: High-yield bonds and emerging market debt – Divergent fates

    While emerging market debt saw record quarterly inflows globally during the third quarter of 2016, the global hunt for yield does not benefit developed market junk bonds. But this could soon change.