2018 could be a break-out year for China, as the country’s economy is propelled by rising consumption, according to Rick Lacaille, global CIO of SSGA.
Category: Asset Class in Focus
Quant strategy wary of hedge fund flaws
Unigestion’s quant fund aims to put right exactly what investors have found to be wrong with hedge funds – lack of liquidity and transparency and high fees and low performance, according to Joan Lee, vice president and investment manager for cross-assets solutions at the boutique fund house.
How have Chinese ETF managers done abroad?
Over the past four years, some mainland asset managers launched products in New York and London. How have they done?
Real estate a drag on Fidelity’s Asean fund
Southeast Asia equities will likely be buoyed by economic growth in 2018, but real estate developers in the sub-region have hit the performance of the Fidelity Asean Fund, managed by Gillian Kwek.
Blackrock: Asia equities go higher in 2018
Asia’s robust corporate earnings and continuing reform in key markets are expected to lift stock prices in 2018, said Andrew Swan, head of Asian and global emerging market equities at Blackrock.
CIC’s Yun cites some reasons to be bullish on China
China is now in a Goldilocks situation, and it should continue in 2018, according to Edmund Yun, Hong Kong-based head of investment solutions at CIC Investor Services.
Currencies become key to fixed income opportunities
Local currency bonds are attractive as the environment for fixed income starts to turn positive after a multi-year downtrend, according to Federico García Zamora, managing director at BNY Mellon’s Standish Mellon.
Are smaller companies Japan’s real value?
Japan’s mid- and small-cap stocks have outperformed large caps, but many are ignored or under-researched, according to Max Godwin, a Singapore-based portfolio manager on Eastspring Investments’ Japan equity team.
JPMorgan WM wants ESG talk and reality to match
ESG is a nice conversation to have with clients, but challenging to implement, said Cynthia Lai, JP Morgan Wealth Management’s new executive director of managed solutions.
Asia’s fund selectors turn bullish on China
Q3 data shows warming sentiment toward China among fund selectors and asset allocators in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, who told FSA they intend to add to their Chinese equity allocation in the next 12 months.
