Barings’ SooHai Lim believes the Philippines could be one of the ASEAN region’s rising stars through higher infrastructure investment and foreign companies pushing their outsourcing requirements to the country.
A look outside the developed world brings huge opportunity for investment but also for innovative new collective terms and acronyms for various countries with shared characteristics, however tenuous.
Lyxor has launched an ETF offering exposure to China A Shares, while revealing steps to “complete” its range with frontier market trackers to be introduced next year.
BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust’s NAV has increased 22.4% over the past six months and the trust has outperformed its benchmark due in large part to its positions in the Nigerian banking sector and a holding in a UAE hospital operator.
Ashburton has launched the Africa Equity Opportunities Fund, the first fund to be made available on its newly created Ucits platform.
Barings Asset Management is launching a Frontier Markets Fund with a high conviction stance on Africa, an approach higher-risk investors could see bring them attractive returns, according to Chelsea's Juliet Schooling-Latter.
Kazimir Partners has acquired Renaissance Asset Managers and the combined business will be owned by its management and employees.
BlackRock frontier markets manager Sam Vecht is looking closer at opportunities in Asia after seeing valuations rise in his preferred country Nigeria.
The high dividends offered by frontier market companies should not always be seen as a sign of strength, HSBC Global Asset Management’s Andrew Brudenell says.
HSBC Global Asset Management has unveiled a Luxembourg-domiciled frontier markets fund for retail investors.
