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SA: unit trusts pick up pace

May 6, 2013 2:13pm by Irene Madongo

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Strong regulation and transparency in the local financial market is ramping up investor confidence in South Africa’s Collective Investment Schemes or unit trusts, an industry body says, after the sector attracted net inflows of R47bn ($5.2bn) in the first quarter of 2013 – the second biggest quarterly net inflows ever. Continue reading »

Ashmore sets up shop in Jakarta

Apr 26, 2013 10:59am by Stefan Wagstyl

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Ashmore Group, the London-based emerging markets specialist fund manager, is pushing to get ahead in the race to manage the money of increasingly-affluent EM savers.

On Friday it said it would open an office in Indonesia, which becomes the 10th country with an Ashmore base and the seventh EM. Clearly, the bulls at Ashmore think recent fears of possible bubbles in southeast Asian asset markets aren’t worth worrying about. Continue reading »

Tags: fund management Posted in Asia, Indonesia | Permalink

Ashmore: growing pains

Feb 21, 2013 11:27am by Stefan Wagstyl

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Is Ashmore running out of road? The emerging markets fund manager, which on Thursday posted a 7.4 per cent drop in interim pre-tax profits, says not. But investors aren’t so sure. The shares dipped 1 per cent the news, which is nothing given the general flight out of EMs on the day.

But after doubling in 2009-10, in the recovery from the 2008 crisis, Ashmore shares have gained very little in the past two years. Clearly, investors need to be convinced that the group can find new ways of profiting from EM in the face of growing low-cost competition from index-tracking rivals. Continue reading »

Tags: Ashmore, fund management, investment Posted in Global | Permalink

Exchange traded products gaining ground in South Africa

Feb 8, 2013 3:44pm by Irene Madongo

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South African investors have been cautious about dipping into exchange traded products (ETPs), which hit the scene just over 10 years ago. Reservations about the passive nature of such products have been an issue for some. But attitudes are changing and the figures are ticking upwards. Continue reading »

Tags: ETFs, fund management, mutual funds Posted in Africa, South Africa | Permalink

Aberdeen: 2013 looks gloomy

Nov 26, 2012 10:19am by Stefan Wagstyl

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Aberdeen Asset Management on Monday published a fairly gloomy forecast for 2013, complete with a warning that investors aren’t likely to find much cheer even in emerging markets.

But the fund manager still backed equities over bonds, pointing out that despite the poor global economic outlook companies were generally in “very good shape”. Just a matter of picking the right stocks, we suppose. Continue reading »

Tags: Aberdeen Asset Management, fund management Posted in Global | Permalink

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: 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: 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

How worried are EM investors? Extremely worried, says SocGen

May 16, 2012 7:00pm by Jonathan Wheatley

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Some anecdotal evidence on the mood among investors has come across our desks: a note from Benoit Anne of Société Générale entitled “EM investor survey: Investors are now extremely worried”.

Among the survey’s conclusions: “it is quite clear that the shorter-term bullish investor on GEM has virtually disappeared”. Continue reading »

Tags: EM fund managers, fund management, investment Posted in Global | Permalink

Mobius starts the final chapter: Africa

Apr 24, 2012 9:06pm by Rob Minto

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Not every fund manager has a comic book made about them. Mark Mobius, the legendary emerging markets investor, has. Published five years ago, our hero finds himself in Africa in the final chapter.

Fast forward to May 2012. Franklin Templeton Investments will launch the Templeton Africa Fund – offering investors a chance to access a “diversified portfolio of companies across countries and sectors with exposure to secular growth trends on the African continent”. It’s as if Mobius was sticking to the (comic) script all along. Continue reading »

Tags: Franklin Templeton, fund management, Mark Mobius Posted in Africa | Permalink

Fidelity sells Indian mutual business

Mar 28, 2012 4:05pm by Neil Munshi

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Fidelity Worldwide Investments, one of the world’s biggest mutual fund managers, has bailed out of the Indian market after making a loss every year since it went there in 2004.

It sold its India mutual funds business to the financial services arm of Larsen & Toubro, an $11.7bn Indian engineering and construction company, the companies said on Tuesday. Continue reading »

Tags: Fidelity, fund management, mutual funds Posted in Asia, India | Permalink

Fund file: Egypt, right or wrong?

Mar 11, 2012 8:15pm by Emma Boyde

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Egypt numbers are hair-raising for investors. Since the beginning of the year its benchmark index has risen nearly 50 per cent, but those invested in Egypt stocks witnessed falls in the same index of 50 per cent in 2011. Investors must now assess whether a healthy recovery is underway or another crash is coming, as a report in Monday’s FTfm explains. Continue reading »

Tags: Egypt equities, fund file, fund management Posted in Africa, Egypt | Permalink

Welcome to eurogeddon (via Poland)

Feb 21, 2012 6:44pm by Jan Cienski

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If the current glow around the latest Greek rescue package leaves you feeling cold, a Polish economics professor may have just the investment vehicle for you: Eurogeddon, a fund aimed at making money in case the worst predictions for the eurozone come true.

Krzysztof Rybinski (left), a former deputy governor of Poland’s central bank who has since become an increasingly bitter critic of the government’s economic policies, on Tuesday announced the launch of his new fund in conjunction with Polish fund manger Opera TFI. Continue reading »

Tags: eurozone, fund management Posted in Europe, Poland | Permalink

Fund management: the lure of Lat Am

Feb 17, 2012 1:51pm by Jonathan Wheatley

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Are you a fund manager looking for new business opportunities? Perhaps it’s time to look to Latin America.

State Street, a Boston-based fund manager and service provider, has identified the region as “a strategic marketplace for money management”. Recent expansion of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and mutual funds makes it make it “particularly attractive to asset managers looking to sell products or for places to invest, as well as for financial service providers”. Continue reading »

Tags: fund management Posted in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Global, LatAm, Mexico, Peru | Permalink

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Fund file: Romania privatisation hope

Fund file: from hot tips to cool heads

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

Fund file: fixing China fund management

How worried are EM investors? Extremely worried, says SocGen

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