SLI expands EM debt suite
Standard Life Investments has broadened its suite of emerging market debt products with the launch of an unconstrained fund.
Emerging Markets
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Nine ways to play global EM growth
Once the ‘go to’ route to growth markets, some GEM funds are no longer, while a new generation of managers are betting on a resurgence in the asset class, according to Meera Hearnden, senior investment manager at Parmenion Investment Management.
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EM divergence continues to topple BRIC strategy
With US valuations higher than they have been for many years and the QE-fuelled run in European assets, investors are once more turning to emerging markets, putting the BRIC economies back under the spotlight.
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China GDP statement provides little reassurance
Chinas statement that its economy is growing in line with expectations at 7% has provided little reassurance over its growth prospects.
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Hermes issues warning on Russia
Hermes Investment Management has warned investors that the Russian markets resemble the military ceasefire with its neighbour Ukraine in that ‘being calm today does not preclude mayhem tomorrow’.
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LGIM bulks up EM fixed income team
Legal & General Investment Management has made a double hire to its dedicated emerging markets fixed income team headed by Uday Patnaik.
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Dont overlook EM dividends
Roughly 90% of companies represented in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index pay dividends, according to a research note by Capital Group.
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Indian market delivers
India has been many wealth managers’ tip for 2015; so far so good but are rate cuts really the way forward?
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Manulife hires two
Manulife Asset Management has hired Kathryn Langridge and Philip Ehrmann to run its new global emerging markets equity portfolio management team.
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Emerging markets buffeted by shifting sentiment
Emerging Markets (EM) asset prices and currencies have been buffeted by the shifting sentiments about the US, Europe and Japan, although fundamentals in EM have hardly changed relative to the heavily indebted developed countries.
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Keeping upwind of emerging market hype
BlackRock's Henry Wigan looks at the gap between some investor perceptions of emerging market returns and the reality thereof.
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Sterling strength impacts Ashmore annual results
Ashmore Group encountered a 3% drop in assets under management, according to its results for the year ending 30 June 2014.
