China’s second quarter growth figures showed a slight pick-up, but how confident are investors about the sustainability of this growth?

China’s second quarter growth figures showed a slight pick-up, but how confident are investors about the sustainability of this growth?
JP Morgan Asset Management is to introduce a renminbi hedged share class for its ASEAN Fund.
Pimco has named its executive committee member Eric Mogelof as the new head of Asia Pacific.
Lion Global Investors has hired Fullerton Fund Management’s Teo Joo Wah for a new role of chief strategist.
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched a fixed income fund in Hong Kong under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme.
ICI Global has recommended several changes to the Asia Region Funds Passport initiative (ARFP) in order to make the scheme more “economically and operationally feasible”.
On Thursday, India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley unveiled the administration’s maiden budget, which did not sketch out radical changes in favour of a cautious agenda.
Of the three major developments last summer namely the return to growth in the eurozone, the tedious taper tantrums and the great deceleration of the emerging markets it was the latter that concerned us most.
Much of the discussion between panelists presenting at Expert Investor Luxembourg focused on a hotly debated topic, especially in the south of Europe: is the euro overvalued?
In volatile times investors value stability, and it is not surprising that absolute return funds have gained much popularity since the start of the global financial crisis back in 2008. According to experts, however, not many absolute return funds have been able to match the expectations of investors.
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