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Fund file: are EM investors getting more than they bargained for?

Dec 9, 2012 4:00pm by Emma Boyde

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If investors were asked to give a chunk of money directly to emerging market governments, most would refuse. But in the stampede towards low-cost, index linked investment in emerging markets, many will effectively end up doing just that, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm.

Arjun Divecha, chairman of GMO’s board and manager of three of its emerging markets funds, says GMO research shows that about 35 per cent of the constituents of the widely benchmarked MSCI emerging market index are companies that are owned or controlled governments and that these companies actually account for about 70 per cent of the earnings generated by that index. Continue reading »

Tags: emerging markets, fund file, investing, passive investing, state-owned enterprises Posted in Global | Permalink

Fund file: wait and see in Tunisia

Nov 25, 2012 6:00pm by Emma Boyde

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Just when things were getting better for investors in Tunisia they got worse again, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm.

Rather than spook investors, the 2011 Jasmine revolution had the perhaps unexpected effect of convincing investors that their investments would be safe from confiscation by the former ruling family. Continue reading »

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Fund file: Romania privatisation hope

Oct 14, 2012 4:00pm by Emma Boyde

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Given all the eurozone bad press, it is unusual to hear from a man who can’t wait for the day when his country enters into the single currency.

But, as a report in Monday’s FTfm explains, for one Romanian fund manager euro entry would usher in a future with more freedom. Continue reading »

Tags: eurozone, fund file, fund management, privatisation, Romania politics Posted in Europe, Romania | Permalink

Fund file: from hot tips to cool heads

Sep 30, 2012 4:26pm by Emma Boyde

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China is expected to double its assets under management by 2015, but before asset managers start anticipating a sales bonanza they should take note of some failings, notes Amin Rajan, chief executive of CREATE-Research, in a report in Monday’s FTfm.

The problem is not just the well publicised difficulties with breaking into the tightly controlled distribution market. The difficulty, says Rajan, lies with the investors themselves. Continue reading »

Tags: fund file, fund management Posted in China, Global | Permalink

Fund file: an African growth story

Sep 16, 2012 4:00pm by Emma Boyde

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The public debate about the ethics of investing in farmland is being ignored by serious investors who seem to have had no qualms about buying up large tracts of land in Africa, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm.

It could be that they were following the advice of Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of asset manager GMO , who recently recommended a 10 per cent strategic allocation to “things in the ground”. Or it could be that they simply thought it was cheap. Either way, 62 per cent of all large-scale land acquisitions since 2000 have occurred in Africa, according to the Land Matrix Partnership. Continue reading »

Tags: fund file Posted in Africa, Global | Permalink

Ashmore: cool heads in choppy waters

Sep 11, 2012 4:30pm by Stefan Wagstyl

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It helps if you keep your head in choppy waters. Ashmore, the emerging markets debt specialist manager, seems to have done just that.

The group on Tuesday reported results for the year to the end of June which modestly exceeded market forecasts, with a slight dip in pre-tax profits from £245.9m last year to £243.2m.

Ashmore made up for a fall in performance-linked fees with increases in basic management fees. That’s good for shareholders in Ashmore, though not necessarily for investors in its funds. Continue reading »

Tags: Ashmore, fund file Posted in Global | Permalink

Fund file: managers wait for Russia thaw

Sep 9, 2012 5:00pm by Emma Boyde

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Russia seems to have much to recommend it from an investor’s point of view. The economy is expected to grow by 3.5-4 per cent this year, oil prices are on the rise again and Russia’s stock market has plenty of room for upward movement after underperforming emerging market peers for the past five years.

But, as a report in Monday’s FTfm explains, asset managers might have to wait a little longer for the retail funds market to thaw. The wealthy may be flashing their cash, but the Russian landscape remains bleak for most international managers. Continue reading »

Tags: equities, fund file Posted in Europe, Russia | Permalink

Fund file: submerging markets

Aug 26, 2012 5:11pm by Emma Boyde

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Young vibrant populations whose economies show strong growth are good investment bets, or so the general ethos behind investing in emerging markets goes.

But a columnist in Monday’s FTfm asks the unthinkable: is that idea just plain wrong?

John Plender examines the work of economists who think the new pessimism about emerging markets might be here to stay. Continue reading »

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Fund file: why China’s cash pile is not enough

Aug 5, 2012 6:03pm by Emma Boyde

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Political leaders in the west have been keeping their eye on Beijing’s $3tn in foreign exchange reserves. If all else fails that amount of money could go a long way, they reason.

But Edward Chancellor, writing in Monday’s FTfm, says China’s forex reserves provide no shelter for anyone, least of all China. Continue reading »

Tags: fund file, fund management Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

Fund file: Bangladesh to bounce back

Jul 29, 2012 3:00pm by Emma Boyde

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At the end of 2010 Bangladesh started doing that thing that frontier market investors dread. A long stock market rally ended so sharply that it sparked protests by angry investors outside the Dhaka stock exchange. The stock market reversal itself followed days of violent protests by Bangladeshi garment workers demanding promised higher wages.

Any hopes that the change in fortunes would be short-lived were dashed and investors saw 2011 wipe out all the gains the stock market had made in the previous year. But things could be about to get better for investors in Bangladesh, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm. Continue reading »

Tags: equities, fund file Posted in Asia, Bangladesh | Permalink

Fund file: spinning a web in Brazil

Jul 1, 2012 6:00pm by Emma Boyde

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Could the internet be the answer to distribution woes in emerging markets? One fund manager in Brazil certainly believes it might the solution there, according to a report in Monday’s FTfm.

As in other emerging markets Brazil’s retail distribution channel is dominated by the country’s top banks, which have 75-80 per cent of the market. But Pedro Bastos, chief executive of HSBC Global Asset Management in Brazil points out that this stranglehold could easily weaken in the future. Continue reading »

Tags: fund file Posted in Brazil, LatAm | Permalink

Fund file: HK dollar route to Rmb convertibility

Jun 24, 2012 3:00am by Emma Boyde

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There has been much talk recently of China’s moves towards full convertibility of the renminbi. And there has been much other talk about the wisdom of removing the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the US dollar. But a column in Monday’s FTfm proposes uniting those two events.

Richard Harris, chief executive of Port Shelter Investment Management thinks his unusual idea has legs. Continue reading »

Tags: fund file Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

Fund file: fixing China fund management

Jun 18, 2012 3:00am by Emma Boyde

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The fund management industry in China is a little dysfunctional, as we reported last week, but few claim they can see how to fix it. Which is why an item in Monday’s FTfm makes such interesting reading.

Robert Pozen, senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, and Theresa Hamacher, president of the National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA), recently returned from the Beijing launch of their book The Fund Industry: How Your Money is Managed, which has been translated into Mandarin. Continue reading »

Tags: fund file, fund management, mutual funds Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

Fund flows: when bad is kind of good

Jun 15, 2012 12:49pm by Jonathan Wheatley

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A pause for breath or a change in direction? After weeks of outflows, EM bond and equity funds both had inflows in the week to Wednesday, according to the latest numbers from EPFR, the Boston-based fund monitor.

EM bond funds saw inflows equal to 0.25 per cent of assets under management, or $361m in EPFR’s sample universe, following three weeks of outflows. EM equity fund reversed direction after five weeks of outflows, with inflows at 0.15 per cent of AUM, or $919m. Continue reading »

Tags: EPFR, eurozone crisis, fund file Posted in Global | Permalink

Fund file: early mover blues in China

Jun 10, 2012 8:00pm by Emma Boyde

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China, or so everyone says, will deliver untold riches in the end – so the important thing is to be there and to be able to stay the pace.

But many foreign fund managers might be wondering how long they are going to have to wait for the domestic market to opens its arms, as a report in Monday’s FTfm explains. Continue reading »

Tags: asset management, China, fund file Posted in Asia, China | Permalink

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Fund file: are EM investors getting more than they bargained for?

Fund file: wait and see in Tunisia

Fund file: Romania privatisation hope

Fund file: from hot tips to cool heads

Fund file: an African growth story

Ashmore: cool heads in choppy waters

Fund file: managers wait for Russia thaw

Fund file: submerging markets

Fund file: why China’s cash pile is not enough

Fund file: Bangladesh to bounce back

Fund file: spinning a web in Brazil

Fund file: HK dollar route to Rmb convertibility

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