EMERGING MARKETS

Financial planning

Multiple global concerns including sovereign risk, geopolitics and policy errors, Chinese growth, inflation and the next bubble suggest a new focus on risk management may...

Financial planning

PortfolioConstruction Forum presents the most recent projects conducted by major funds research houses over the past month....

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Editorial

PortfolioConstruction Forum presents the most recent projects conducted by major funds research houses over the past month....

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Editorial

Emerging market growth opportunities still exist if investors know where to look, writes Skye Macpherson....

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Financial planning

Negative feedback loops and poor investor sentiment are the main reasons behind the dramatic falls in share markets over the past few weeks, but the global economy shoul...

Funds management

Specialist emerging markets managers are likely to deliver better results in that sector than global managers with a bolt on approach, according to Lonsec's latest global...

Financial planning

The retail funds management space in Australia is highly intermediated, resulting in high costs to the end investor - something that fee-for-service advice could help red...

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Financial planning

Concerns about global economic growth have led to outflows from 19 of the 25 major equity, bond and sector fund groups monitored by funds data tracker EPFR Global over th...

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Financial planning

In mid June, eight members of the PortfolioConstruction Forum Academy travelled to Boston, to undertake a four-day Harvard Business School short course on the global econ...

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Editorial

In mid June, eight members of the PortfolioConstruction Forum Academy travelled to Boston, to undertake a four-day Harvard Business School short course on the global econ...

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Financial planning

Australia is more highly leveraged to emerging markets than people realise, and finding ways to diversify away from that risk is one of the biggest challenges facing port...

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Editorial

Increasing demand for energy combined with limited supply sounds like the perfect investment equation. However, as Mark Hume explains, it’s not without some risk....

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Editorial

Brazil, Russia, India and China formed a block of countries that returned well to their investors over the past decade. Tom Stevenson tries to predict which countries cou...

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Editorial

Many investors are bullish about China’s growth prospects, but over-investment in unproductive asset classes by the Chinese authorities should be ringing alarm bells, wri...

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Financial planning

Developed equity markets globally fell 1.79 per cent in June, but still fared better than emerging markets, which collectively fell 2.06 per cent for the month, according...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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