December 2011
Opinion Russia is not Egypt (yet)
After Egypt, Russia is the second country where capital flight has been significant this year. Now Russia has a tradition of strong capital flight. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been only a few quarters without a net capital (...)
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November 2011
Opinion On debt watch: why China can’t save the world
As China faces up to its debt problems investors should be poised for turbulence and opportunity, writes Robin Parbrook, Head of Asia (ex Japan) Equities.
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November 2011
Note The dynamic of the yuan
According to Phillippe Waechter, Head of Economic Research of Natixis Asset management, the evolution of China is extremely rapid, and both its accumulation of foreign reserves and its capability to destabilise or stabilise global constructions is (...)
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October 2011
Strategy Two big macro themes the strategic investor should be looking at
The two big macro themes that investors should keep in mind are those of deleveraging and rebalancing. There has been a ream of insight written about fiscal sustainability over the past three years, but the most important question lies in whether there will be an offsetting (...)
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October 2011
Opinion Stuck between Europe and China
For investors in emerging markets, the positive dynamics in China, on the one hand, and the malaise in Europe, on the other, are causing perplexity.
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October 2011
Innovation DWS Investments launches DWS Invest Emerging Markets Top Dividend Plus in France
The DWS Invest Emerging Markets Top Dividend Plus fund offers an emerging market equity strategy combined with the opportunity for current income
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October 2011
Opinion The emerging markets irony
The lesson to take from this price action is that the “decoupling” arguments should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism, and any move into global recession would be damaging for the asset classes.
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October 2011
Strategy Frontier markets no riskier than emerging markets
According to new Research Foundation of CFA Institute book, Frontier Market Equity Investing: Finding the Winners of the Future, valuations are more attractive and, therefore, opportunity for future returns is greater in frontier (...)
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September 2011
Opinion « Surprising Russia »
Based on the experiences of recent years, there are few stock markets that are more risky than Russia’s. After the Brazilian and South African market, the Russian market has been the most sensitive to increasing risk aversion among investors since the market correction of (...)
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September 2011
Innovation TIMCO has launched The Bangladesh Fund
The Bangladesh Fund offers global investors access to the Equity (DSE-Dhaka Stock Exchange) and Fixed Income markets of Bangladesh, one of the fastest growing economies in the world with GDP growth consistently above 5% since 1990, with growth currently around (...)
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September 2011
News John Paulson has lost nearly $ 500 million betting on Sino-Forest
Paulson & co and many other fund management companies have been caught by the markets after the revelations about Sino-Forest real wealth. Is it a lesson taught to the funds invested in shares of companies expected to capture growth in emerging markets (...)
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September 2011
Innovation BlackRock expands Equity Income range with launch of Emerging Markets Fund
The BGF Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund seeks to generate a minimum yield 30% above the benchmark index yield.
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September 2011
Opinion Emerging market bonds still looking good
In light of the difficult circumstances surrounding the equity markets, investors are hunting around for alternatives. Unfortunately, savings-book interest rates are limited, as are the returns from safe developed-country government (...)
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August 2011
Strategy Inflationary pressure is not a threat to growth in emerging markets
Inflationary pressure has grown during the past months due to excess demand, excess lending, lack of supply, increasing costs for energy and a rise in food prices.
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July 2011
Note What is penalizing the industrialized countries?
The dynamics of Western countries are inadequate because, two years after leaving the recession behind, their economies still seem unable to implement a sturdy, autonomous trajectory of growth, explains Philippe Waechter, chief economist at Natixis (...)
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