Emerging Market Debt – Page 8
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News
Emerging-market losses at Norwegian oil fund offset by real estate
Returns of 10% from real estate see asset class outperform equities and fixed income for second year running
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NEST appoints EM debt manager but keeps quiet on strategy timeline
UK defined contribution fund says mandate set to account for up to 10% of assets during growth phase
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Law firm Jones Day prepares for emerging market debt defaults
Firm to analyse legal issues arising from upcoming defaults
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Emerging markets wipe out returns at Switzerland's Publica
Pension fund cites negative impact of emerging market exposure
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Swiss pension fund benchmarks return less than 1% over 2015
Pictet’s BVG 2015 index for pension fund portfolios estimates lower performance than previous indices
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Asset Class Reports
Holistic approaches to EM debt exposure
Asset allocation is key to successful investment in emerging markets. But the real task is working out how best to invest among the wide range of assets and strategies available
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Asset Class Reports
Outlook: The case for EM debt
Opinions vary on the long-term prospects for emerging market debt
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Asset Class Reports
Mexican peso: No good deed goes unpunished
The Mexican peso has suffered as investors have sold the formerly favoured currency following concerns about China and the global community slump
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you restructuring your emerging market allocation?
Three pension funds - Amonis, BNL BNP Paribas, and UMR Corem - talk about their exposure to emerging markets
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
This year looks like it could be remembered as the Bund sell-off year, or perhaps even the Bund Blowback, with one of the intraday price falls larger than any recorded (by Bloomberg) in the past quarter century
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News
Private equity drives 15% return at West Midlands Pension Fund
Scheme sees bumper returns from listed, unlisted equity, sells out of commodities, hedge funds
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NewsMandate roundup: Publica, Australian equities, IPE Quest
Publica tenders $100m emerging market equity mandate using IPE Quest
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Swiss funds troubled by impact of negative 10-year bond yields
Swiss 10-year government bond yield positive if inflation forecast remains true
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Switzerland's Publica now considering active only for 'niche' investments
Country’s largest pension fund adds risk via fixed income portfolio rather than equities
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Asset Class Reports
Beleggersberaad 2014: Managers sing praises of frontier markets
Emerging market debt (EMD) has matured and could now act as a “useful addition” to a pension fund’s fixed income portfolio, according to Roy Scheepe, senior client portfolio manager at ING Investment Management.
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Corporates come of age
A structural advantage is baked into emerging market corporate debt, but exploiting it is dangerous without intense credit work. Caroline Saunders finds a market coming out of childhood but not yet an adult
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: On borrowed time?
Warnings about China’s growing debt exposure abound. Beverly Chandler finds market players confident that the system is robust – but emphasising the importance of continued reform and rebalancing
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Building the emerging world
Bank disintermediation, and the opportunities it presents, is as strong a theme in emerging infrastructure markets as developed. But Jennifer Bollen finds the similarities may end there
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Special Report
Special Report – Emerging markets: Buying opportunity, or structural setback?
Over the past six years, few investment themes have invited such gyrations in sentiment, or generated so much contention, as the emerging markets. After an initial sell-off during the worst of the 2007-08 financial crisis, they clearly outperformed through 2009-11.
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Special Report
Special Report – Emerging markets: Emerging markets in transition
The rise of the emerging world, and especially China, has transformed the global economy over the past generation, while the past decade has transformed investors’ attitudes to its markets. Daniel Ben-Ami assesses where we are in an ongoing transition
