November 2012
Strategy Further consolidations expected in China’s soft beverages market
There is likely to be a wave of consolidations in China’s beverages market as it responds to the USD 5 billion alliance of Tingyi and PepsiCo, according a report from Rabobank. Smaller, ‘second tier’ beverages players will be affected most by the new alliance, as they struggle (...)
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November 2012
Strategy Emerging Europe poised for sustainable long term growth
Although very different on a country-by-country basis, ING IM predicts that, collectively, Emerging Europe is set to benefit from a desire to advance regulatory enhancements, push ahead with economic liberalisation and pursue privatization (...)
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October 2012
Strategy Corporate Bonds – Ideal for Emerging Markets diversification
With sovereign ceilings rising, corporate governance and overall transparency improving, demand and liquidity high and returns attractive relative to risk, what’s not to like about Emerging Markets corporate bonds?
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October 2012
Strategy Africa: Kenya’s Mobile Frontier
When we first started out in the emerging markets space more than two decades ago, we were in “frontier” territory as we entered markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil that were previously closed to foreign (...)
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September 2012
Strategy US housing: a long-term attractive opportunity
According to Stephanie Krertz, US real estate to be an excellent longterm opportunity, with a currently very attractive entry point in terms of valuation, even though sub-par economic growth is likely to make the rise in prices much more gradual than during previous (...)
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August 2012
Strategy WTI prices not keeping pace with fundamentals
WTI prices have rallied over $18/bbl from their June lows. However, the rally in WTI prices has failed to keep pace with the rally in Brent prices, which are up more than $24/bbl from their June lows.
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August 2012
Strategy Do mega companies offer mega opportunities?
Mega companies are bigger than most countries. Quite a few pharma, food, oil and tech companies reach annual revenues of over $50 bln, exceeding the GDP levels of more than 2/3 of the countries in the world. Unusually, these mega companies have performed better than the (...)
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August 2012
Strategy Despite DB Decline, U.K. Institutional Market to Provide Ample Opportunities for Asset Managers for Next 10-20 Years
Results of the Greenwich Associates 2012 U.K. Investment Management Study reveal that the U.K. institutional investment market should continue to expand over at least the next decade or two, but changing product demand will fundamentally shake up the source of revenues for (...)
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July 2012
Strategy European companies are becoming ever more ’global’
There is a clear distinction between the travails of the eurozone and the prospects for successful, ’world beating’ European companies. I think that the world has changed: in recent years, European companies have become much more global and more than ever, the quality of the (...)
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March 2012
Strategy Africa, the emerging market story of the next decade ?
According to Mark Mobius, Africa could represent a tremendous opportunity for investors in the next few years. The continent is well known for its wealth of natural resources, much of it barely developed, which includes oil and gas and a variety of metals and minerals, as (...)
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March 2012
Strategy Equities: will oil spoil the party?
After the strong start to the year equity markets are getting vulnerable to profit taking. A further rise in oil prices could well provide the excuse for doing so, certainly as the momentum in liquidity creation seems to have (...)
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February 2012
Strategy Asian debt now a mainstream asset class
Investors should view Asian debt as a mainstream asset class and not simply as a subsection of the global bond universe, according to Chia-Liang Lian, manager of the Legg Mason Western Asset Asian Opportunities (...)
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January 2012
Strategy Focus on yield, quality and diversification as safe havens contract
Investors should focus on investments that offer yield, quality and diversification amid expectations that the global economy will avoid recession but experience fragile growth in 2012, according to Bill O’Neill, Chief Investment Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (...)
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December 2011
Strategy The Euro’s Survival and traditional asset classes prospects for 2012
On the basis of the survival «in fine» of the Euro through a constrained and massive indirect monetization from the ECB, what are the expectations for 2012 on foreign exchange, short-term rates, long-term rates and (...)
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December 2011
Strategy Equities: Outlook 2012
We prefer investments in large, international companies with good access to capital markets, some growth and decent dividend yields.
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