Given the rise in market volatility, Fund Selector Asia compares two top-performing small-cap products: the HSBC Asia ex-Japan Equity Smaller Companies Fund and the PineBridge Asia ex-Japan Small Cap Equity Fund.
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HEAD-TO-HEAD: Aberdeen vs First State
Fund Selector Asia compares two well-known products that invest in the region: the Aberdeen Global Asia-Pacific Equity Fund and the First State Asia-Pacific Select Fund.
Morgan Stanley vs Templeton
HEAD-TO-HEAD. The global fixed income market is undergoing a period of high volatility. While the European authorities are in final negotiation stages to save Greece from a potential default, the US looks set to hike interest rates sometime this year.
Survey: Global investors favour equities
Half of global investors believe there will be a rotation from bonds to equities over the next three years, according to a survey by Principal Global Investors.
Asia worlds richest region by 2016
Asia-Pacific is expected to overtake North America as the region with the largest amount of private wealth by 2016, according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group.
HEAD-TO-HEAD: Fidelity European Dynamic Growth VS Invesco Pan European Equity
For months the European equity market has been in the spotlight for many reasons, bad and good. This past week has been overshadowed by final stage negotiations between Greece and its creditors..
HEAD-TO-HEAD: BlackRock Asian Dragon vs Investec Asian Equity
Further easing measures are expected as current economic indicators in China have not improved, AXA Investment Managers and Schroder said recently. Separately, Schroder’s recently cautioned on the overheating in China’s market while BlackRock said it would prefer a selective investment approach following the surge in A- and H-shares. In India, managers like Franklin Templeton said they expect Indian markets to rise as […]
Indian equities are not too hot to hold- Templeton AM
A fall in domestic inflation and an improved current account deficit, along with a new reform-minded government, have been the key factors driving the market. “In spite of the rally, the market is not trading at valuations higher than its long-term average. Excess optimism has not been factored into current prices,” Rajah said in an […]
Study: Fund flows unlikely to roil EM economies
The last four years, emerging markets received $1.4trn in cumulative gross portfolio capital flows, but only around $200bn came from regulated funds, according to Christopher Plantier, ICI senior economist of industry and financial analysis, who authored the report. EM capital flow was analysed to put into perspective the size of regulated fund investment into those […]
Survey: HNWIs reliant on online advice know the least about finance
The gap between perceived versus actual financial knowledge has driven Asian high net worth individuals to increase their investment knowledge, according to the M&G Asia wealth barometer. While wealth managers are the number one resource (55%) for sourcing investment ideas and information, digital media (48%) and friends and family (48%) also followed closely. But investors […]
