Overweight positions in Asia have helped propel the firm’s growth portfolio.

Overweight positions in Asia have helped propel the firm’s growth portfolio.
All portfolios continued to move up in February, but slower compared to the previous month.
After negative performance in December and for full year 2018, all three FE portfolios were up in January.
Holding positions for five years on average, the T Rowe Price Japanese Equity Fund invests in Japanese companies undergoing transformation, explains Archibald Ciganer, portfolio manager.
This month FSA looks at the growth portfolio, which has increased performance a second consecutive month in 2017. Luke Ng, senior VP of research at FE Advisory Asia, explains why.
As soon as a fund’s portfolio reaches 40 stocks, the benefits of portfolio diversification diminish. Therefore, fund managers should strive to have no more than 40 holdings. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by Nomura Asset Management.
Asset managers are dealing with an increasing amount of factors when they construct a portfolio, which raises the chances of error, according to Craig McGee, partner at Sherpa Funds Technology in Singapore.
A team of quants and ex-portfolio managers from Natixis uses institutional tools to provide a free portfolio risk assessment to wealth managers in Asia.
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